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Incompressible Euler flows in narrow domains, in which the horizontal length scale is much larger than other scales, play an important role in applications, and their leading-order behavior can be described by the hydrostatic Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Wang Shing Leung , Tak Kwong Wong , Chunjing Xie

In this paper, we consider the Boussinesq equations with magnetohydrodynamics convection in the domain $\mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$ and establishes the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow $(\mathbf{u}_{sh} = (y,0), \mathbf{b}_{sh} =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Dongfen Bian , Shouyi Dai , Jingjing Mao

We prove the nonlinear inviscid damping for a class of monotone shear flows with non-constant background density for the two-dimensional ideal inhomogeneous fluids in $\mathbb{T}\times [0,1]$ when the initial perturbation is in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Weiren Zhao

This paper concerns the dynamics of a layer of incompressible viscous fluid lying above a rigid plane and with an upper boundary given by a free surface. The fluid is subject to a constant external force with a horizontal component, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Ian Tice

In this article we consider the stability and damping problem for the 2D Boussinesq equations with partial dissipation near a two parameter family of stationary solutions which includes Couette flow and hydrostatic balance. In the first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Christian Zillinger

We consider a two-dimensional, two-layer, incompressible, steady flow, with vorticity which is constant in each layer, in an infinite channel with rigid walls. The velocity is continuous across the interface, there is no surface tension or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

In this paper, we study the stability threshold of the two-dimensional Boussinesq equations around the Couette flow in an infinite channel $\mathbb{R} \times [-1, 1]$ under no-slip boundary conditions. We prove that the Couette flow is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Tao Liang , Jiahong Wu , Xiaoping Zhai

Nonlinear stages of the recently uncovered instability due to insoluble surfactant at the interface between two fluids are investigated for the case of a creeping plane Couette flow with one of the fluids a thin film and the other one a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander L. Frenkel , David Halpern

This paper is concerned with the 2-dim two-phase interface Euler equation linearized at a pair of monotone shear flows in both fluids. We extend the Howard's Semicircle Theorem and study the eigenvalue distribution of the linearized Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Xiao Liu

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of the solutions to the two-dimensional incompressible free Navier Stokes equation (without forcing) with small viscosity $\nu$, when the initial data is close to stable monotone shear flows.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Hui Li , Weiren Zhao

We study the stability of Couette flow in the 3d Navier-Stokes equations with rotation, as given by the Coriolis force. Hereby, the nature of linearized dynamics near Couette flow depends crucially on the force balance between background…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Michele Coti Zelati , Augusto Del Zotto , Klaus Widmayer

We study the Sobolev stability thresholds of 2d dissipative fluid equations around Couette flow on the domain $\mathbb T\times \mathbb R$. We prove a bound for general nonlinear interactions, which, for several fluid equations, reduces the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Niklas Knobel

We study the steady states of the Euler equations on the periodic channel or annulus. We show that if these flows are laminar (layered by closed non-contractible streamlines which foliate the domain), then they must be either parallel or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Theodore D. Drivas , Marc Nualart

We introduce a notion of stability for non-autonomous Hamiltonian flows on two-dimensional annular surfaces. This notion of stability is designed to capture the sustained twisting of particle trajectories. The main Theorem is applied to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Theodore D. Drivas , Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

In this paper we examine the linear stability of equilibrium solutions to incompressible Euler's equation in 2- and 3-dimensions. The space of perturbations is split into two classes - those that preserve the topology of vortex lines and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Elizabeth Thoren

Using numerical simulations, we show that the asymptotic states of two-dimensional (2D) Euler turbulence exhibit large-scale flow structures due to nonzero energy transfers among small wavenumber modes. These asymptotic states, which depend…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-29 Mahendra K. Verma , Soumyadeep Chatterjee

We study small disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. We prove that for sufficiently regular initial data of size $\epsilon \leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Jacob Bedrossian , Pierre Germain , Nader Masmoudi

A basic example of shear flow was introduced by DiPerna and Majda to study the weak limit of oscillatory solutions of the Euler equations of incompressible ideal fluids. In particular, they proved by means of this example that weak limit of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Claude Bardos , Edriss S. Titi

This paper establishes the asymptotic stability threshold for the Couette flow $(y,0)$ under the 2D Boussinesq system in $\mathbb{R}^2$. It was proved that for initial perturbations in Sobolev spaces with controlled low horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yubo Chen , Wendong Wang , Guoxu Yang

The problem of two-dimensional steady nonlinear dynamics in plane Couette flow is revisited using homotopy from either plane Poiseuille flow or from plane Couette flow perturbed by a small symmetry-preserving identity operator. Our results…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Francois Rincon