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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

We study Sobolev regularity disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. Our goal is to estimate how the stability threshold scales in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Jacob Bedrossian , Pierre Germain , Nader Masmoudi

In this paper, we study nonlinear stability of the 3D plane Couette flow $(y,0,0)$ at high Reynolds number ${Re}$ in a finite channel $\mathbb{T}\times [-1,1]\times \mathbb{T}$. It is well known that the plane Couette flow is linearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Qi Chen , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

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

Rotation significantly influences the stability characteristics of both laminar and turbulent shear flows. This study examines the stability threshold of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with rotation, in the vicinity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Wenting Huang , Ying Sun , Xiaojing Xu

The transition mechanism from laminar flow to turbulent flow is a central problem in hydrodynamic stability theory. To shed light on this transition mechanism, Trefethen et al.({\it \small Science 1993}) proposed the transition threshold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Minling Li , Changzhen Sun , Chao Wang , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

Rotation is a crucial characteristic of fluid flow in the atmosphere and oceans, which is present in nearly all meteorological and geophysical models. The global existence of solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations with large rotation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Wenting Huang , Ying Sun , Xiaojing Xu

This paper concerns the Couette flow for 2-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations (N-S) in an infinitely long flat torus $\Torus\times\R$. Compared to the incompressible flow, the compressible Couette flow has a stronger lift-up effect and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Feimin Huang , Rui Li , Lingda Xu

In this paper, we study the transition threshold problem for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations around the Couette flow $(y,0)$ at large Reynolds number $Re$ in a finite channel. We develop a systematic method to establish the resolvent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Qi Chen , Te Li , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

Consider the linear stability of the three dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{T}$. We prove the enhanced dissipation phenomenon for the linearized isentropic compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Lan Zeng , Zhifei Zhang , Ruizhao Zi

We establish the nonlinear stability threshold $O(\nu^{3/2})$ for the three-dimensional Couette flow governed by the compressible Navier--Stokes equations. While stability thresholds are well understood in two dimensions for both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Rui Li , Fei Wang , Lingda Xu , Zeren Zhang

In this paper, we consider the stability threshold of the 2D shear flow $(U(y),0)^{\top}$ of the Navier-Stokes equation at high Reynolds number $Re$. When the shear flow is near in Sobolev norm to the Couette flow $(y,0)^{\top}$ in some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Dongfen Bian , Xueke Pu

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

In this paper, we obtain the optimal instability threshold of the Couette flow for Navier-Stokes equations with small viscosity $\nu>0$, when the perturbations are in the critical spaces $H^1_xL_y^2$. More precisely, we introduce a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Hui Li , Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

This paper concerns with the stability of the plane Couette flow resulted from the motions of boundaries that the top boundary $\Sigma_1$ and the bottom one $\Sigma_0$ move with constant velocities $(a,0)$ and $(b,0)$, respectively. If one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin

In this paper, we investigate the transition threshold problem concerning the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations in the context of Couette flow $(y,0)$ at high Reynolds number $Re$ in whole space. By utilizing Green's function estimates for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Gaofeng Wang , Weike Wang

We study the stability threshold of the 2D Couette flow in Sobolev spaces at high Reynolds number $Re$. We prove that if the initial vorticity $\Omega_{in}$ satisfies $\|\Omega_{in}-(-1)\|_{H^{\sigma}}\leq \epsilon Re^{-1/3}$, then the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

In this paper, we develop a stability threshold theorem for the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on the channel, supplemented with the no-slip boundary condition. The initial datum is close to the Couette flow in the following…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jacob Bedrossian , Siming He , Sameer Iyer , Linfeng Li , Fei Wang

We consider the 2D Navier-Stokes equation on $\mathbb T \times \mathbb R$, with initial datum that is $\varepsilon$-close in $H^N$ to a shear flow $(U(y),0)$, where $\| U(y) - y\|_{H^{N+4}} \ll 1$ and $N>1$. We prove that if $\varepsilon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Jacob Bedrossian , Vlad Vicol , Fei Wang

We characterize the behavior of stochastic Navier-Stokes on $\mathbb{T} \times [-1,1]$ with Navier boundary conditions at high Reynolds number when initialized near Couette flow subject to small additive stochastic forcing. We take additive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Ryan Arbon , Jacob Bedrossian
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