Approximating stationary statistical properties

Abstract

It is well-known that physical laws for large chaotic dynamical systems are revealed statistically. Many times these statistical properties of the system must be approximated numerically. The main contribution of this manuscript is to provide simple and natural criterions on numerical methods (temporal and spatial discretization) that are able to capture the stationary statistical properties of the underlying dissipative chaotic dynamical systems asymptotically. The result on temporal approximation is a recent finding of the author, and the result on spatial approximation is a new one. Applications to the infinite Prandtl number model for convection and the barotropic quasi-geostrophic model are also discussed.

Keywords

Stationary statistical property / Invariant measure / Global attractor / Dissipative system / Time discretization / Spatial discretisation / Uniformly dissipative scheme / Infinite Prandtl number model for convection / Barotropic quasi-geostrophic equations

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