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

Abstract

The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the modified Leray-alpha equation on the two-dimensional sphere S 2 , the square torus T 2 and the three-torus 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 S 2 and 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 T 2 to study the lower bound for attractor’s dimensions in the case of T 3 .