Numerical implementation of the Crank–Nicolson/Adams–Bashforth scheme for the time‐dependent Navier–Stokes equations

This article considers numerical implementation of the Crank–Nicolson/Adams–Bashforth scheme for the two-dimensional non-stationary Navier–Stokes equations. A finite element method is applied for the spatial approximation of the velocity and pressure. The time discretization is based on the Crank–Nicolson scheme for the linear term and the explicit Adams–Bashforth scheme for the nonlinear term. Comparison with other methods, through a series of numerical experiments, shows that this method is almost unconditionally stable and convergent, i.e. stable and convergent when the time step is smaller than a given constant. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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