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The existence and dynamical role of particular unstable Navier-Stokes solutions (exact coherent structures) is revealed in laboratory studies of weak turbulence in a thin, electromagnetically-driven fluid layer. We find that the dynamics…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Balachandra Suri , Jeffrey Tithof , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

This paper concerns the construction of traveling wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes system. We study a single layer of viscous fluid in a strip-like domain that is bounded below by a flat rigid surface and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Junichi Koganemaru , Ian Tice

In this paper, we investigate the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow for the two-dimensional compressible Navier--Stokes equations at high Reynolds numbers ($Re$) regime. It was proved that if the initial data $(\rho_{in},u_{in})$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Minling Li , Chao Wang , Zhifei Zhang

Rayleigh-Taylor instability occurs when a heavier fluid overlies a lighter fluid, and the two seek to exchange positions under the effect of gravity. We present linearized theory for arbitrary 3D initial disturbances that grow in time, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-18 S. J. Walters , L. K. Forbes

This paper concerns the dynamics of two layers of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid lying atop one another. The lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom, and the upper fluid is bounded above by a trivial fluid of constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Juhi Jang , Ian Tice , Yanjin Wang

This paper is concerned with nonlinear stability of viscous contact discontinuity to inflow problem for the one-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes equations with different ends in half space $[0,\infty)$. For the case when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-22 Tingting Zheng

Systems of hydrodynamic type equations derived from the Navier-Stokes equations and the boundary layer equations are considered. A transformation of the Crocco type reducing the equation order for the longitudinal velocity component is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-08 A. D. Polyanin , S. N. Aristov

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Yanjin Wang , Ian Tice , Chanwoo Kim

In this paper I analyze the onset of Rayleigh-Taylor instability between two linear viscoelastic fluids assuming that the perturbations at the interface are small. In the first half, the paper analyzes a stratified viscoelastic fluid in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-06 Amey Joshi

We study the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a channel $\Omega=(0,L)\times(0,H)$ with small viscosity $\varepsilon\ll1$, an $\varepsilon$-Navier slip condition on the horizontal walls, and a viscous inflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yan Guo , Zhuolun Yang

We show the existence of (a class of) weak solutions to the three-dimensional stationary incompressible inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity coefficient in the axially symmetric case. Further symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Zihui He

We study the inviscid limit problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation on a half-plane with a Navier boundary condition depending on the viscosity. On one hand, we prove the $L^2$ convergence of Leray solutions to the solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Matthew Paddick

We show the existence and the regularity properties of the weak solutions to the two-dimensional stationary incompressible inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations with variable viscosity coefficient, by analyzing a fourth-order nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Zihui He , Xian Liao

We study the nonhomogeneous boundary value problem for the Navier--Stokes equations of steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a three--dimensional exterior domain with multiply connected boundary. We prove that this problem has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-28 Mikhail Korobkov , Konstantin Pileckas , Remigio Russo

Linear stability of inviscid, parallel, and stably stratified shear flow is studied under the assumption of smooth strictly monotonic profiles of shear flow and density, so that the local Richardson number is positive everywhere. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Makoto Hirota , Philip J. Morrison

We consider the Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system in a bounded domain of ${\mathbb {R}}^d$, $d=2,3$ with general nonequilibrium Dirichlet boundary conditions for the ionic concentrations. We prove the existence of smooth steady state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Peter Constantin , Mihaela Ignatova , Fizay-Noah Lee

In this paper, we investigate a system coupled by nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and Allen-Cahn equations describing a diffuse interface for two-phase flow of viscous fluids with different densities in a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Yinghua Li , Wenlin Ye

This paper concerns the instability and stability of the trivial steady states of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier-slip boundary conditions in a slab domain in dimension two. The main results show that the stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Shijin Ding , Quanrong Li , Zhouping Xin

The stability of density-stratified viscous Taylor-Couette flows is considered using the Boussinesq approximation but without any use of the short-wave approximation. The flows which are unstable after the Rayleigh criterion (\hat \mu<\hat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Shalybkov , G. Ruediger

We advance the computation of physical modal expansions for unsteady incompressible flows. Point of departure is a linearization of the Navier-Stokes equations around its fixed point in a frequency domain formulation. While the most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-24 Marek Morzynski , Wojciech Szeliga , Bernd R. Noack