Interval vortex methods

By means of the integral version of vortex equation, the technique of Green's function, and the vorticity‐to‐velocity map, a new kind of interval methods for solving the initial‐periodic boundary value problem of two‐dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equation is introduced, which consists of both an approximate scheme and a set of pointwise intervals covering the exact solution. The convergence theorem corresponding to the scheme is proved, and the order of error width for the two‐sided bounds is also considered. Finally, a simple numerical example illustrates our corroboration. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 30: 1368–1396, 2014