Stability threshold of Couette flow for Boussinesq equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$
Analysis of PDEs
2025-08-19 v1
Abstract
This paper establishes the asymptotic stability threshold for the Couette flow under the 2D Boussinesq system in . It was proved that for initial perturbations in Sobolev spaces with controlled low horizontal frequencies, the stability threshold is at most , extending the known threshold results from the periodic case to the whole space. The core innovations are twofold: First, the control on the initial data simultaneously resolves horizontal frequency singularities and optimizes integral indices when applying Young's convolution inequality. Second, we develop a modified multiplier that effectively absorbs the derivative structure induced by the temperature equation while handling nonlinear echo cascades.
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@article{arxiv.2508.11908,
title = {Stability threshold of Couette flow for Boussinesq equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$},
author = {Yubo Chen and Wendong Wang and Guoxu Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11908},
year = {2025}
}