Highly efficient linear energy stable methods for preserving the original energy dissipation law of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive computational framework to construct highly efficient linear energy stable methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation, which preserve the original energy dissipation law. By multiplying the convection term by an identity-one term and incorporating a zero stabilization term, we recast the original model as a strongly equivalent system, while ensuring the retention of the original energy dissipation law. Such nonlinear system is then discretized in time based on the Crank-Nicolson schemes and the backward differentiation formulas, resulting in highly efficient time-discrete schemes. The proposed schemes are designed to preserve the original energy dissipation law while requiring only the solutions of three linear Stokes systems and a $2\times 2$ linear system at each time step. The finite difference approximation on a staggered grid is employed for the time-discrete systems to derive fully discrete energy stable schemes, which are proven to preserve the original energy dissipation law and be uniquely solvable. We present the efficient implementation of these methods. Various numerical experiments are carried out to verify the accuracy, efficacy, and advantageous performance of our newly developed methods.