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Quantitative stability for the 2D Couette flow on the infinite channel with non-slip boundary condition

Analysis of PDEs 2025-10-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the quantitative stability for the 2D Couette flow on the infinite channel R×[1,1]\mathbb{R}\times [-1,1] with non-slip boundary condition. Compared to the case T×[1,1]\mathbb{T}\times [-1,1], we establish the stability in the context of long wave associated with the frequency range 0k<10\leq |k|<1 by developing the resolvent estimate argument. The new ingredient is to discover the key division point at 10ν10\nu in the frequency interval (0,1)(0,1) by the sharp Sobolev constant in Wirtinger's inequality together with the refined estimates of the Airy function in the interval (0,1)(0,1), and then we establish the space-time estimates on the low-frequency 0k10ν0\leq |k|\leq 10 \nu and the intermediate-frequency 10νk<1 10 \nu\leq |k|<1, respectively. As an application of the space-time estimates, we obtain the nonlinear transition threshold to be γ12\gamma\leq\frac{1}{2}.Meanwhile, we also show that when the frequencies kν1|k|\geq \nu^{1-}, the enhanced dissipation effect occurs for the linearized Navier-Stokes equations.

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@article{arxiv.2510.18376,
  title  = {Quantitative stability for the 2D Couette flow on the infinite channel with non-slip boundary condition},
  author = {Qionglei Chen and Zhen Li and Changxing Miao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18376},
  year   = {2025}
}

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35 pages. This paper has been submitted in 22 Feb 2025