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Stability threshold for 2D shear flows near Couette of the Navier-Stokes equation

Analysis of PDEs 2022-03-29 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the stability threshold of the 2D shear flow (U(y),0)(U(y),0)^{\top} of the Navier-Stokes equation at high Reynolds number ReRe. When the shear flow is near in Sobolev norm to the Couette flow (y,0)(y,0)^{\top} in some sense, we prove that if the initial data u0u_0 satisfies u0(U(y),0)ϵRe1/3\|u_0-(U(y),0)^{\top}\|\leq \epsilon Re^{-1/3}, then the solution of the 2D Navier-Stokes equation approaches to some shear flow which is also close to the Couette flow for tRe1/3t\gg Re^{1/3}, as tt\to\infty.

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@article{arxiv.2203.14332,
  title  = {Stability threshold for 2D shear flows near Couette of the Navier-Stokes equation},
  author = {Dongfen Bian and Xueke Pu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14332},
  year   = {2022}
}