On the numerical construction of an attractor for the Navier-Stokes system

In this paper the problem of the numerical approximation of the minimal global B-attractor for a semiflow generated by the Navier-Stokes equations in a two-dimensional bounded domain Ω is considered. The method suggested here is based on the formula , where G^N is a sequence of compact subsets of L₂(Ω), . The procedure of constructing G^N is finite and includes the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations by means of the Galerkin method, together with an explicit finite-difference discretization in time. Bibliography: 5 titles. To dear teacher Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya on the occasion of the jubilee Translated fromZapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 200, 1992, pp. 91–97. Translated by V. I. Ochkur.