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The aim of this paper is to investigate the stability of Prandtl boundary layers in the vanishing viscosity limit: $\nu \to 0$. In \cite{Grenier}, one of the authors proved that there exists no asymptotic expansion involving one Prandtl's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Emmanuel Grenier , Toan T. Nguyen

In this paper, we establish the vanishing viscosity limit result of the 2D stationary Navier-Stokes equations outside a rotating disc. On the boundary of the disc, the fluid is subjected to a small perturbation of a non zero rotation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Xinghong Pan , Jianfeng Zhao

We consider an initial-boundary value problem for the one-dimensional equations of compressible isentropic viscous and non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic flows. The global well-posedness of strong solutions with general large data is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Song Jiang , Jianwen Zhang

We consider the initial-boundary value problem for the incompressible two-dimensional micropolar fluid model with angular viscosity in the upper half-plane. This model describes the motion of viscous fluids with microstructure. The global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Yinghui Wang , Weihao Zhang

We study the limiting behavior of viscous incompressible flows when the fluid domain is allowed to expand as the viscosity vanishes. We describe precise conditions under which the limiting flow satisfies the full space Euler equations. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-11 J. P. Kelliher , M. C. Lopes Filho , H. J. Nussenzveig Lopes

In this paper, we consider the zero-viscosity limit of the 2D steady Navier-Stokes equations in $(0,L)\times\mathbb{R}^+$ with non-slip boundary conditions. By estimating the stream-function of the remainder, we justify the validity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Chen Gao , Liqun Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the vanishing viscosity limit for the 3D nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with a slip boundary condition. We establish the local well-posedness of the strong solutions for initial boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Pengfei Chen , Yuelong Xiao , Hui Zhang

Whether, in the presence of a boundary, solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations converge to a solution to the Euler equations in the vanishing viscosity limit is unknown. In a seminal 1983 paper, Tosio Kato showed that the vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-30 James P. Kelliher

In this paper, we establish the mathematical validity of the Prandtl boundary layer theory for a class of nonlinear plane parallel flow of nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The convergence for the density and velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin , Dongjuan Niu

We consider the flow of a viscous, incompressible, Newtonian fluid in a perforated domain in the plane. The domain is the exterior of a regular lattice of rigid particles. We study the simultaneous limit of vanishing particle size and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-31 Christophe Lacave , Anna Mazzucato

We consider the free boundary problem of compressible isentropic neo-Hookean viscoelastic fluid equations with surface tension. Under the physical kinetic and dynamic conditions proposed on the free boundary, we investigate regularities of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Xumin Gu , Yu Mei

In this paper we investigate the asymptotic validity of boundary layer theory. For a flow induced by a periodic row of point-vortices, we compare Prandtl's solution to Navier-Stokes solutions at different $Re$ numbers. We show how Prandtl's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Francesco Gargano , Marco Sammartino , Vincenzo Sciacca , Kevin Cassel

We compute the solutions of Prandtl's and Navier-Stokes equations for the two dimensional flow induced by a rectilinear vortex interacting with a boundary in the half plane. For this initial datum Prandtl's equation develops, in a finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Francesco Gargano , Marco Sammartino , Vincenzo Sciacca

This paper is concerned with the validity of the Prandtl boundary layer theory in the inviscid limit of the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, which is an extension of the pioneer paper (Y. Guo et al., 2017, Ann. PDE) from a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Shijin Ding , Quanrong Li

In this paper, we validate the boundary layer theory for 2D steady viscous incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a domain $\{(X, Y)\in[0, L]\times\mathbb{R}_+\}$ under the assumption of a moving boundary at $\{Y=0\}$. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Shijin Ding , Zhijun Ji , Zhilin Lin

There are a few examples of solutions to the incompressible Euler equations which are piecewise smooth with a discontinuity of the tangential velocity across a hypersurface evolving in time: the so-called vortex sheets. An important open…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-30 Franck Sueur

This is the second of two papers devoted to the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a half-space with point vortex initial data. A major difficulty stems from the interaction between the point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Chao Wang , Jingchao Yue , Zhifei Zhang

The second-grade fluid equations are a model for viscoelastic fluids, with two parameters: $\alpha > 0$, corresponding to the elastic response, and $\nu > 0$, corresponding to viscosity. Formally setting these parameters to $0$ reduces the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Milton C. Lopes Filho , Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes , Edriss S. Titi , Aibin Zang

Motivated by extrusion problems, we consider a non-stationary incompress-ible 3D fluid flow with a non-constant (temperature dependent) viscosity, subjected to mixed boundary conditions with a given time dependent velocity on a part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Mahdi Boukrouche , Imane Boussetouan , Laetitia Paoli

This paper is concerned with the incompressible limit problem for strong solutions of compressible two-phase flow models under periodic boundary conditions, where the Navier-Stokes equations are nonlinearly coupled with either Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yinghua Li , Manrou Xie