On attractor's dimensions of the modified Leray-alpha equation

TL;DR

This paper studies the attractor dimensions of the modified Leray-alpha equation on various manifolds, establishing existence, uniqueness, and bounds for the global attractor's Hausdorff and fractal dimensions.

Contribution

It provides new bounds for the attractor's dimensions on different manifolds and introduces methods based on vorticity estimates and Kolmogorov flows.

Findings

Existence and uniqueness of weak solutions.

Bounds for Hausdorff and fractal dimensions of the attractor.

Extension of results from 2D to 3D cases.

Abstract

The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the modified Leray-alpha equation on the two-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$, the square torus $\mathbb{T}^2$ and the three-torus $\mathbb{T}^3$. In the strategy, we prove the existence and the uniqueness of the weak solutions and also the existence of the global attractor for the equation. Then we establish the upper and lower bounds of the Hausdorff and fractal dimensions of the global attractor on both $\mathbb{S}^2$ and $\mathbb{T}^2$. Our method is based on the estimates for the vorticity scalar equations and the stationary solutions around the invariant manifold that are constructed by using the Kolmogorov flows. Finally, we will use the results on $\mathbb{T}^2$ to study the lower bound for attractor's dimensions on the case of $\mathbb{T}^3$.