Error analysis for 3D Navier--Stokes equations with additive noise

Abstract

We consider the three-dimensional stochastic Navier--Stokes equations with additive stochastic forcing. We study temporal discretizations based on a semi-implicit Euler as well as a Crank-Nicolson scheme. We prove that locally in time the former converges with rate 1 while the latter converges with rate 3/2. These theoretical results are confirmed by extensive numerical simulations. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that numerical simulations for the three-dimensional stochastic Navier--Stokes equations have been performed.