The dimension of attractor of the 2D \(g\)-Navier--Stokes equations (Q819657)

The \(g\)-Navier-Stokes equations in spatial dimension 2 were introduced by J. Roh as \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\nu\Delta u+(u \cdot\nabla)u+\nabla p=f,\quad \text{in }\Omega\times(0,\infty) \] with the continuity equation \[ \nabla\cdot(gu )=0,\quad\text{in }\Omega \times(0,\infty) \] where \(g\) is a suitable smooth real-valued function in \(\Omega\subset \mathbb R^2\). Roh proved the existence of global solutions and the global attractor \({\mathcal A}_g\) for the spatial periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions. He also proved that the global attractor \({\mathcal A}_g\) of the \(g\)-Navier-Stokes equations converges in the sense of upper continuity to the global attractor \({\mathcal A}_1\) of the Navier-Stokes equations as \(g\to 1\) in the proper sence. In this paper the fractal dimension of the global attractor of the 2D \(g\)-Navier-Stokes equations for the spatial periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions is estimated. For the proofs the standard method of Temam and the recent results of Chepyzhov and Ilyin are used. In the last section the upper bound for the dimension of the global attractors \({\mathcal A}_g\) of the \(g\)-NSE is shown to converge to the corresponding upper bound for the global attractor \({\mathcal A}_1\) of the NSE as \(g\to 1\) in the proper sense.