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Stability threshold of the 2D Couette flow in Sobolev spaces

Analysis of PDEs 2022-03-30 v1

Abstract

We study the stability threshold of the 2D Couette flow in Sobolev spaces at high Reynolds number ReRe. We prove that if the initial vorticity Ωin\Omega_{in} satisfies Ωin(1)HσϵRe1/3\|\Omega_{in}-(-1)\|_{H^{\sigma}}\leq \epsilon Re^{-1/3}, then the solution of the 2D Navier-Stokes equation approaches to some shear flow which is also close to Couette flow for time tRe1/3t\gg Re^{1/3} by a mixing-enhanced dissipation effect and then converges back to Couette flow when t+t\to +\infty.

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@article{arxiv.1908.11042,
  title  = {Stability threshold of the 2D Couette flow in Sobolev spaces},
  author = {Nader Masmoudi and Weiren Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11042},
  year   = {2022}
}
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