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We perform direct numerical simulations of rotating Rayleigh--B\'enard convection of fluids with low ($Pr=0.1$) and high ($Pr=5$) Prandtl numbers in a horizontally periodic layer with no-slip top and bottom boundaries. At both Prandtl…

This paper is concerned with the free boundary value problem for multi-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity where the flow density vanishes continuously across the free boundary. A local (in time) existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Jian Liu

The asymptotic limit of the 2D and 3D Navier-Stokes-Korteweg system for barotropic capillary fluids with density dependent viscosities in the low Mach number and vanishing viscosity regime is established. In the relative energy framework,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Matteo Caggio , Donatella Donatelli , Lars Eric Hientzsch

Dependence of boundary layer thickness on layer height in laminar and transient regimes is studied for convection from localised heat source with an open surface. The measurements of Nusselt number and characteristic frequency of thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-03 Andrei Sukhanovskii , Anna Evgrafova

Within the Darcy-Boussinesq framework for convection in multilayered porous media, we investigate the singular limit in which the thickness of one layer tends to zero. We establish that the solution of the full system converges to that of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Kaijian Sha , Xiaoming Wang

The existence and uniqueness of the analytic solutions to the nonlinear Prandtl equations with Robin boundary condition on a half space are proved, based on an application of abstract Cauchy-Kowalewski theorem. These equations arise in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Yutao Ding , Ning Jiang

A global approach leading to a self-consistent solution to the Navier-Stokes-Prandtl equations for zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers is presented. It is shown that as $Re_{\delta}\rightarrow \infty$, the dynamically defined boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 victor yakhot

We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes and Euler equations in a bounded domain with non-characteristic boundary condition, and study the energy dissipation near the outflow boundary in the zero-viscosity limit. We show that in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Jincheng Yang , Vincent R. Martinez , Anna L. Mazzucato , Alexis F. Vasseur

IIn the paper, we consider the inviscid, incompressible and semiclassical limits limits of the barotropic quantum Navier-Stokes equations of compressible flows in a periodic domain. We show that the limit solutions satisfy the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Hongli Wang , Jianwei Yang

We consider the free boundary problem for a layer of viscous, incompressible fluid in a uniform gravitational field, lying above a rigid bottom and below the atmosphere. For the "semi-small" initial data, we prove the zero surface tension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Zhong Tan , Yanjin Wang

In a three-dimensional bounded domain $\Omega$ we consider the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for a barotropic fluid with general non-linear density dependent viscosities and no-slip boundary conditions. A nonlinear drag term is added…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Luca Bisconti , Matteo Caggio , Filippo Dell'Oro

The dynamical equation of the boundary vorticity has been obtained, which shows that the viscosity at a solid wall is doubled as if the fluid became more viscous at the boundary. For certain viscous flows the boundary vorticity can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-28 V. Cherepanov , J. Liu , Z. Qian

We investigate the incompressible and compressible heat conducting boundary layer with applying the two-dimensional self-similar Ansatz. Analytic solutions can be found for the incompressible case which can be expressed with special…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-30 Imre F. Barna , K. Hriczó , G. Bognár , L. Mátyás

This paper is concerned with the boundary layer problem on a chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system modelling boundary layer formation of aerobic bacteria in fluid. Completing the system with physical Robin-type boundary conditions for oxygen,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Qianqian Hou

We establish the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations to the Euler equations for three-dimensional compressible isentropic flow in the whole space. It is shown that there exists a unique regular solution of compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Yongcai Geng , Yachun Li , Shengguo Zhu

Ma and Wang derived an equation linking the separation location and times for the boundary layer separation of incompressible fluid flows. The equation gave a necessary condition for the separation (bifurcation) point. The purpose of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Chi Hin Chan , Magdalena Czubak , Tsuyoshi Yoneda

This paper is devoted to describe the finite-dimensionality of a two-dimensional micropolar fluid flow with periodic boundary conditions. We define the notions of determining modes and nodes and estimate the number of them, we also estimate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Piotr Szopa

This note concerns a nonlinear ill-posedness of the Prandtl equation and an invalidity of asymptotic boundary-layer expansions of incompressible fluid flows near a solid boundary. Our analysis is built upon recent remarkable linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-15 Yan Guo , Toan Nguyen

In this paper we study the behavior of an incompressible viscous fluid moving between two very close surfaces also in motion. Using the asymptotic expansion method we formally justify two models, a lubrication model and a shallow water…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 J. M. Rodríguez , R. Taboada-Vázquez

We study the confinement of vorticity for two-dimensional incompressible flows in an infinite cylinder. For Navier-Stokes solutions with non-negative and compactly supported initial vorticity, we derive quantitative decay estimates showing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Paolo Buttà , Guido Cavallaro