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We consider the compressible Navier--Stokes equation in a perturbed half-space with an outflow boundary condition as well as the supersonic condition. For a half-space, it has been known that a certain planar stationary solution exist and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Masahiro Suzuki , Katherine Zhiyuan Zhang

Rayleigh-Taylor and Buoyancy-driven instabilities are very common instabilities for an inhomogeneous medium. We examine here how these instabilities grow for incompressible viscoelastic fluids like a strongly coupled dusty plasma by using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Vikram S. Dharodi , Amita Das

In this paper, the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional (3-D) isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations is considered. When viscosity coefficients are given as a constant multiple of the density's power ($\rho^\delta$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Zhouping Xin , Shengguo Zhu

In this paper, we study the dynamic stability of the 3D axisymmetric Navier-Stokes Equations with swirl. To this purpose, we propose a new one-dimensional (1D) model which approximates the Navier-Stokes equations along the symmetry axis. An…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Y. Hou , Congming Li

We study linear theory of the magnetized Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a system consisting of ions and neutrals. Both components are affected by a uniform vertical gravitational field. We consider ions and neutrals as two separate fluid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Mohsen Shadmehri , Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Mahdi Khajavi

The purpose of this paper is to provide a large class of initial data which generates global smooth solution of the 3-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes system in the whole space~$\R^3$. This class of data is based on functions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Jean-Yves Chemin , Ping Zhang

This work considers the gravitational instability of a saline boundary layer formed by an evaporation-induced flow through a fully-saturated porous slab. Evaporation of saline waters can eventually result in the formation of salt lakes as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 Leon H. Kloker , Carina Bringedal

The effects of polymer additives on Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability of immiscible fluids is investigated using the Oldroyd-B viscoelastic model. Analytic results obtained exploiting the phase-field approach show that in polymer solution…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , L. Vozella

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

An effort has been made to solve the Cauchy problem of the Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space by two methods. It is proved that the sum of the three vorticity components is a time-invariant in fluid motion. It has been proved that,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-18 F. Lam

This paper investigates the extendability of local solutions for incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes and 3D Euler problems, with initial data $\mathbf{u}_0$ in the Sobolev space $H^s (\mathbb{R}^3)$, where $s$ ensures the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Ulisse Iotti

We consider the flow of a Newtonian fluid in a three-dimensional domain, rotating about a vertical axis and driven by a vertically invariant horizontal body-force. This system admits vertically invariant solutions that satisfy the 2D…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Basile Gallet

The global well-posedness and inviscid limit are investigated for the fluid-particle interaction system, described by the Navier-Stokes equations for the inhomogeneous incompressible viscous flows coupled with the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Fucai Li , Jinkai Ni , Ling-Yun Shou , Dehua Wang

We study the incompressible stationary Navier-Stokes equations in the upper-half plane with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and non-zero external forcing terms. Existence of weak solutions is proved under a suitable condition on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Adrian D. Calderon , Van Le , Tuoc Phan

We study the two-phase, horizontally periodic, quasistationary Stokes flow in two dimensions driven by surface tension and gravity effects in the general context of fluids with (possibly) different viscosities and densities. The sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Daniel Böhme , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

The linear stability of stratified two-phase flows in rectangular ducts is studied numerically. The linear stability analysis takes into account all possible infinitesimal three-dimensional disturbances and is carried out by solution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-09 Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

We investigate the linear instability of flows that are stable according to Rayleigh's criterion for rotating fluids. Using Taylor-Couette flow as a primary test case, we develop large Reynolds number matched asymptotic expansion theories.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Kengo Deguchi , Ming Dong

A well-known unsolved problem (in the classical theory of fluid mechanics) is to identify a set of initial velocities, which may depend on the viscosity, the body forces and possibly the boundary of the fluid that will allow global in time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tepper L Gill , Woodford W. Zachary

This paper concerns spectral instability of shear flows in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with sufficiently large Reynolds number: $R\to \infty$. It is well-documented in the physical literature, going back to Heisenberg, C.C.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Emmanuel Grenier , Yan Guo , Toan Nguyen

In this paper, we prove the uniform nonlinear structural stability of Hagen-Poiseuille flows with arbitrary large fluxes in the axisymmetric case. This uniform nonlinear structural stability is the first step to study Liouville type theorem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Yun Wang , Chunjing Xie