Error analysis of a stochastic immersed boundary method incorporating thermal fluctuations (Q960334)

The mechanics of many microscopic biological systems (for instance, such as blood flow in the heart) can be thought in terms of immersed elastic structures which interact with a fluid, [see \textit{C. S. Peskin}, Acta Numerica 11, 479--517 (2002; Zbl 1123.74309)]. An extended immersed boundary method which incorporates thermal fluctuations and fluid dynamics was recently introduced in \textit{P. J. Atzberger, P. R. Kramer} and \textit{C. S. Peskin} [J. Comp. Phys. 224, 1255--1292 (2007; Zbl 1124.74052)]. For modeling of the microscopic biological systems, the authors use a stochastic Stokes equation with periodic boundary conditions. For the equation they propose some stochastic numerical schemes. Unlike standard numerical methods which are typically analyzed when the time step is taken smaller than all time scales of the problem, the authors are interested in analyzing the error even when the time step is taken larger than some of the time scales of the problem.