Differential identities for Navier–Stokes solution differences #
Subtraction of the physical differential operators, the difference equation, and pointwise energy identities are independent of boundary conditions and integration domains. This module provides that common API for periodic and whole-space energy estimates. Spatial and temporal slice regularity works over arbitrary real normed spaces, and the nonlinear energy bound works in any real inner product space.
This separation of the common differential API follows Code4me2's refactor. The original periodic names remain available as compatibility lemmas.
Differentiate a spatial field in the ith standard coordinate direction.
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Coordinate partial derivatives of a continuously differentiable field are continuous.
Subtract the actual Navier--Stokes residuals, retaining the favorable
transport decomposition Du(w) + Dw(v).
The adverse quadratic energy term is bounded by an operator norm bound in any real inner product space.
The ordinary spatial derivative at a time endpoint is the restriction of the joint within-derivative to spatial directions.
Compactness supplies the spatial-gradient bound used by the energy estimate; it is a conclusion from smoothness, not an input to uniqueness.
Reconstruction in the standard Euclidean coordinate basis.
The pressure term paired with a vector is its scalar directional derivative. This uses exactly the gradient definition in the target.