Numerical study of the impacts of stochastic forcing on the vortex in fluid flow

Abstract

This paper focuses on a numerical study about the stochastic Navier–Stokes equations. Unlike previous studies, this paper focuses on studying these equations from the perspective of vortices. The vorticity–stream function method was proposed to deal with incompressible fluid flow. And a Crank–Nicolson Fourier pseudo-spectral method was put forward to solve the formulation of stream function equation. In addition, we have conducted some numerical experiments to observe the effects of random forcing on vortices in the fluid flow by utilizing stochastic solution.

Keywords

• Stochastic Navier–Stokes equations
• Numerical methods
• Vortex