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Flow instability and turbulent transition can be well explained using a new proposed theory--Energy gradient theory [1]. In this theory, the stability of a flow depends on the relative magnitude of energy gradient in streamwise direction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hua-Shu Dou

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 2016-04-20 Juhi Jang , Ian Tice , Yanjin Wang

This paper studies the dynamics of an incompressible fluid driven by gravity and capillarity forces in a porous medium. The main interest is the stabilization of the fluid in Rayleigh-Taylor unstable situations where the fluid lays on top…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Francisco Gancedo , Rafael Granero-Belinchon , Stefano Scrobogna

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 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 the motion of two-phase, incompressible, viscous fluids with surface tension is investigated. Three cases are considered: (1) the case of heat-conducting fluids, (2) the case of isothermal fluids, and (3) the case of Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

We investigate the Couette-Taylor problem for a steady incompressible viscous fluid in a 3D cylindrical annulus, where one of the two cylinders is still, under both Dirichlet and boundary conditions involving the vorticity that naturally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Edoardo Bocchi , Filippo Gazzola , Antonio Hidalgo-Torné

We study the dynamics of the interface given by two incompressible viscous fluids in the Stokes regime filling a 2D horizontally periodic strip. The fluids are subject to the gravity force and the density difference induces the dynamics of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Francisco Gancedo , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Elena Salguero

We study the stability of a type of stratified flows of the two dimensional inviscid incompressible MHD equations with velocity damping. The exponential stability for the perturbation near certain stratified flow is investigated in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Yi Du , Wang Yang , Yi Zhou

We study flow driven through a finite-length planar rigid channel by a fixed upstream flux, where a segment of one wall is replaced by a pre-stressed elastic beam subject to uniform external pressure. The steady and unsteady systems are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-24 Danyang Wang , Xiaoyu Luo , Peter S. Stewart

The temporal instability of stably stratified flow was investigated by analyzing the Taylor-Goldstein equation theoretically. According to this analysis, the stable stratification $N^2\geq0$ has a destabilization mechanism, and the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-18 Liang Sun

We prove that there exists a weak solution to a system governing an unsteady flow of a viscoelastic fluid in three dimensions, for arbitrarily large time interval and data. The fluid is described by the incompressible Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Michal Bathory , Miroslav Bulíček , Josef Málek

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

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic stability of the three-dimensional Couette flow in a stratified fluid governed by the Stokes-transport equation. We observe that a similar lift-up effect to the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Daniel Sinambela , Weiren Zhao , Ruizhao Zi

This study examines the stability of a flexible material interface between two fluids of the same viscosity in interaction with a free surface. When the layers are motionless, we provide evidence for the onset of a novel instability by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-05 Joris Labarbe

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

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

We consider a boundary value problem for the system of equations describing the stationary motion of a viscous nonhomogeneous asymmetric fluid in a bounded planar domain having a $C^2$ boundary. We use a stream-function formulation after…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Fábio Vitoriano Silva

We consider a continuum model of active viscoelastic matter, whereby an active nematic liquid-crystal is coupled to a minimal model of polymer dynamics with a viscoelastic relaxation time $\tau_C$. To explore the resulting interplay between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-30 E. J. Hemingway , M. E. Cates , S. M. Fielding

The Navier-Stokes equations for compressible barotropic flow in the stationary three dimensional case are considered. It is assumed that a fluid occupies a bounded domain and satisfies the no-slip boundary condition. The existence of a weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-23 P. I. Plotnikov , W. Weigant