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We consider the free boundary problem for two layers of immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluid in a uniform gravitational field, lying above a rigid bottom in a three-dimensional horizontally periodic setting. The effect of surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Yanjin Wang , Ian Tice

We study the two dimensional viscous Boussinesq equations, which model stratified flows in a circular domain under the influence of a general gravitational potential $f$. First, we show that the Boussinesq equations admit steady-state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Song Jiang , Quan Wang

We consider the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes system in a smooth two or three dimensional bounded domain, in the case where the initial density is only bounded. Existence and uniqueness for such initial data was shown recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Raphaël Danchin , Piotr B. Mucha , Tomasz Piasecki

We are concerned with the linear stability of the Couette flow for the non-isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with vanished shear viscosity in a domain $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. For a general initial data settled in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Xiaoping Zhai

We analyze the forced incompressible stationary Navier-Stokes flow in $\mathbb{R}^n_+$, $n>2$. Existence of a unique solution satisfying a global integrabilty property measured in a scale of tent spaces is established for small data in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Gael Y. Diebou

We investigate the stabilizing effects of the magnetic fields in the linearized magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) problem of a nonhomogeneous incompressible viscous magnetohydrodynamic fluid of zero resistivity in the presence of a uniform…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

We study the stability properties of boundary layer-type shear flows for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the limit of small viscosity $0<\nu\ll 1$. When the streamwise and spanwise velocity profiles are linearly independent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Cheng-Jie Liu , Mengjun Ma , Di Wu , Zhu Zhang

We consider the viscous incompressible fluids in a three-dimensional horizontally periodic domain bounded below by a fixed smooth boundary and above by a free moving surface. The fluid dynamics are governed by the Navier-Stokes equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Xing Cheng , Yunrui Zheng

We investigate in this paper the global stability of the compressible viscous surface waves in the absence of surface tension effect with a steady-state violating Rayleigh-Taylor instability and the reference domain being the horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Guilong Gui , Zhifei Zhang

It is shown how the variable density model (VDM) that governs the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) for the miscible mixing of two incompressible fluids can be transformed into a diffusive version of the inhomogeneous, incompressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-03 John D. Gibbon

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

We establish criteria of stability and instability for the stratified compressible magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem. More precisely, if under the stability condition $\Xi <1$, we show the existence of unique solution with algebraic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

We construct large velocity vector solutions to the three dimensional inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes system. The result is proved via the stability of two dimensional solutions with constant density, under the assumption that initial density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Piotr B. Mucha , Liutang Xue , Xiaoxin Zheng

Linear stability of solid body rotating flows with axisymmetric density variations is addressed analytically. Considering inviscid disturbances, a non trivial dispersion relation is obtained and it is shown that the instability is of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-24 C. Jacques , B. Di Pierro , F. Alizard , M. Buffat , A. Cadiou , L. Le Penven

Motivated by Bresch, Desjardins, Gisclon and Sart (2008), in this paper, we study the influence of capillary number on an instability result related to the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations. Precisely, we investigate the instability of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Tien-Tai Nguyen

In this article we consider the inhomogeneous incompressible Euler equations describing two fluids with different constant densities under the influence of gravity as a differential inclusion. By considering the relaxation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Björn Gebhard , József J. Kolumbán , László Székelyhidi

We study the 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in an annular cylinder, perturbed around the explicit steady state given by the 3D Taylor-Couette velocity field and zero magnetic field. Combining a recent linear instability result for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Víctor Navarro-Fernández , David Villringer

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviors of solutions to the inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes-Vlasov system in $\mathbb{R}^{3}\times\mathbb{R}^{3}$, where the initial fluid density is allowed to vanish. We establish the uniform bound of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Hai-Liang Li , Ling-Yun Shou , Yue Zhang

We establish a variational framework for nonlinear instabilities in a setting of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. We apply a variational method to various kind of smooth steady states which are shown to be nonlinearly unstable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hyung Ju Hwang

It is a classical problem in fluid dynamics about the stability and instability of different hydrodynamic patterns in various physical settings, in particular in the high Reynolds number limit of laminar flow with boundary layer. However,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Tong Yang , Zhu Zhang