Reformed post-processing Galerkin method for the Navier-Stokes equations

In this article we compare the post-processing Galerkin (PPG) method with the reformed PPG method of integrating the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the case of non-smooth initial data $u_0 \epsilon\in H^1_0(\Omega)^2$ with div$u_0=0$ and $f,~f_t\in L^\infty(R^+;L^2(\Omega)^2)$. We give the global error estimates with $H^1$ and $L^2$-norm for these methods. Moreover, if the data $\nu$ and the $\lim_{t \rightarrow \infty}f(t)$ satisfy the uniqueness condition, the global error estimates with $H^1$ and $L^2$-norm are uniform in time $t$. The difference between the PPG method and the reformed PPG method is that their error bounds are of the same forms on the interval $[1,\infty)$ and the reformed PPG method has a better error bound than the PPG method on the interval $[0,1]$.