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A stochastic Lamb–Oseen vortex solution of the 2D Navier–Stokes equations
Author(s) -
Sereno J. L.,
Pereira J. M. C.,
Pereira J. C. F.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.741
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2040-7947
pISSN - 2040-7939
DOI - 10.1002/cnm.1263
Subject(s) - discretization , navier–stokes equations , polynomial chaos , mathematics , vortex , mathematical analysis , probability density function , function (biology) , physics , mechanics , compressibility , monte carlo method , statistics , evolutionary biology , biology
The exact solution of the Lamb–Oseen vortices is reported for a random viscosity characterized by a Gamma probability density function. This benchmark solution allowed to quantify the analytic error of the polynomial chaos (PC) expansion as a function of the number of stochastic modes considered and compare it with its numerical counterpart. The last was obtained in the framework of the PC expansion method together with a finite difference numerical discretization of the resulting system of Navier–Stokes equations for the expansion modes considered. The obtained solution may be used to test other numerical approaches for the solution of the Navier–Stokes equations with random inputs. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.