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We study a low-rank iterative solver for the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flows with a stochastic viscosity. The equations are discretized using the stochastic Galerkin method, and we consider an all-at-once…

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Consider the linear stability of the three dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{T}$. We prove the enhanced dissipation phenomenon for the linearized isentropic compressible…

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The evolution of the interface separating a conduit of light, viscous fluid rising buoyantly through a heavy, more viscous, exterior fluid at small Reynolds numbers is governed by the interplay between nonlinearity and dispersion. Previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nicholas K. Lowman , Mark A. Hoefer

The paper considers a system of equations that models a lateral flow of a Boussinesq--Scriven fluid on a passively evolving surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. For the resulting Navier-Stokes type system, posed on a smooth closed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Alexander Zhiliakov

We study the asymptotic behavior of the forced linear Euler and nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations close to Couette flow in a periodic channel. As our main result we show that for smooth time-periodic forcing linear inviscid damping…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Christian Zillinger

We study linear stability of solutions to the Navier\textendash Stokes equations with stochastic viscosity. Specifically, we assume that the viscosity is given in the form of a~stochastic expansion. Stability analysis requires a solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Bedřich Sousedík , Howard C. Elman , Kookjin Lee , Randy Price

We study existence and stability of steady solutions of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations on a finite interval with non characteristic boundary conditions, for general not necessarily small-amplitude data. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Benjamin Melinand , Kevin Zumbrun

The effect of rotation upon the classical two-layer Rayleigh-Taylor instability is considered theoretically and compared with previous experimental results. In particular we consider a two-layer system with an axis of rotation that is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-03 Matthew M. Scase , Kyle A. Baldwin , Richard J. A. Hill

We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of turbulent shear flows, with and without rotation, in the context of a simple but physically motivated closure of the equation governing the evolution of the Reynolds stress tensor. We show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pascale Garaud , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Experiments (Mullin and Kreswell, 2005) show that transition to turbulence can start at Reynolds numbers lower than it is predicted by the linear stability analysis - the subcritical transition to turbulence. To explain these observations…

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The interaction between a viscous fluid and an elastic solid is modeled by a system of parabolic and hyperbolic equations, coupled to one another along the moving material interface through the continuity of the velocity and traction…

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The magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability has been shown to play a key role in many astrophysical systems. The equation for the growth rate of this instability in the incompressible limit, and the most-unstable mode that can be derived from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Andrew Hillier

Recently, Kaladze and Misra [Phys. Scr. 99 (2024) 085013] showed that the tropospheric stratified fluid flows may be unstable by the effects of the negative temperature gradient and the temperature-dependent density inhomogeneity arising…

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Resistive tearing instabilities are common in fluids that are highly electrically conductive and carry strong currents. We determine the effect of stable stratification on the tearing instability under the Boussinesq approximation. Our…

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The stationary Navier-Stokes equations for a non-Newtonian incompressible fluid are coupled with the stationary heat equation and subject to Dirichlet type boundary conditions. The viscosity is supposed to depend on the temperature and the…

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A novel phase field method is proposed to model the continuous transition of binary fluids exhibiting temperature sensitive miscibility gap, from immiscible state to miscible state via partially miscible states. The model is employed to…

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We investigate the high viscosity limit (also called inertial limit) of the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations supplemented with initial data which are perturbations of a stable constant solution. In the case of constant…

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We study the modification of the classical criterion for the linear onset and growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in a partially ionized (PI) plasma in the one-fluid description, considering a generalized induction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. J. Diaz , E. Khomenko , M. Collados

We solve the stationary Navier-Stokes equations for non-Newtonian incompressible fluids with shear dependent viscosty in domains with unbounded outlets, in the case of shear thickening viscosity, i.e. the viscosity is given by the shear…

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