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In this paper, we investigate the nonlinear stability and transition threshold for the 3D Boussinesq system in Sobolev space under the high Reynolds number and small thermal diffusion in $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{T} $. It is…

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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…

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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…

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In this paper we prove the asymptotic stability of the Kolmogorov flow on a non-square torus for perturbations $\omega_0$ satisfying $\|\omega_0\|_{H^3}\ll\nu^{1/3}$, where $0<\nu\ll1$ is the viscosity. Kolmogorov flows are important…

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In this paper, we study the nonlinear asymptotic stability of Couette flow for the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation with small viscosity $\nu>0$ in $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$. It's generally known the nonlinear asymptotic stability…

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We show the $H^1$ stability of shear flows of Prandtl type: $U^\nu = (U_s(y/\sqrt{\nu}),0)$, in the steady two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, under the natural assumptions that $U_s(Y) > 0$ for $Y > 0$, $U_s(0) = 0$, and $U_s'(0) >…

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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…

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In this paper, we investigate the stability of the 2-dimensional (2D) Taylor-Couette (TC) flow for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The explicit form of velocity for 2D TC flow is given by $u=(Ar+\frac{B}{r})(-\sin \theta, \cos…

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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 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…

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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

In this paper, we prove the stability threshold of $\alpha\leq \frac13$ for 2D Boussinesq equations around the Couette flow in $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$ with Richardson number $\gamma^2>\frac14$ and different viscosity $\nu$ and thermal…

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In this paper, we investigate the stability threshold problem of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes Boussinesq(NSB) equations in a finite channel $ \T \times [-1,1]$, focusing on the stability around the near Couette shear flow $ (U(y), 0)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Tao Liang , Yongsheng Li , Xiaoping Zhai

We investigate the global in time stability of regular solutions with large velocity vectors to the evolutionary Navier-Stokes equation in ${\bf R}^3$. The class of stable flows contains all two dimensional weak solutions. The only…

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In this note, we investigate the stability property of shear flows under the 2D stationary Navier-Stokes equations, and we obtain that the Couette flow $(y,0)$ is stable under the space of $\mathcal{D}^{1,q}(\mathbb{R}^2)$ for any…

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In this paper, we study the nonlinear stability for the 3-D plane Poiseuille flow $(1-y^2,0,0)$ at high Reynolds number $Re$ in a finite channel $\mathbb{T}\times [-1,1 ]\times \mathbb{T}$ with non-slip boundary condition. We prove that if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Qi Chen , Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin , Zhifei Zhang

We study the stability of spectrally stable, strictly monotone, smooth shear flows in the 2D Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$ with small viscosity $\nu$. We establish nonlinear stability in $H^s$ for $s \geq 2$ with…

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This paper studies the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations governing stratified flows in a bounded domain under a gravitational potential \(f\). Our main results are as follows. First, we provide a rigorous…

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