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We consider solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbb{R}^2$ close to the Poiseuille flow with viscosity $0< \nu < 1$. For the linearized problem, we prove that when the $x$-frequency satisfy $|k| \ge \nu^{-\frac{1}{3}}$, the…

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We show possibility of the Plane Couette (PC) flow instability for Reynolds number Re>Reth=140. This new result of the linear hydrodynamic stability theory is obtained on the base of refusal from the traditionally used assumption on…

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The normal-mode analysis of the Reynolds-Orr energy equation governing the stability of viscous motion for general three-dimensional disturbances has been revisited. The energy equation has been solved as an unconstrained minimization…

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In plane Couette flow, the incompressible fluid between two plane parallel walls is driven by the motion of those walls. The laminar solution, in which the streamwise velocity varies linearly in the wall-normal direction, is known to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-28 D. Viswanath

We consider a 2D incompressible and electrically conducting fluid in the domain $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$. The aim is to quantify stability properties of the Couette flow $(y,0)$ with a constant homogenous magnetic field $(\beta,0)$ when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Michele Dolce

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic stability threshold problem for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations in a finite channel with no-slip boundary conditions, around monotone shear flow $(U(t,y),0)$. We establish that the flow is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Zhen Li , Shunlin Shen , Zhifei Zhang

We study the stability properties of boundary layer-type shear flows for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the limit of small viscosity $0<\nu\ll 1$. When the streamwise and spanwise velocity profiles are linearly independent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Cheng-Jie Liu , Mengjun Ma , Di Wu , Zhu Zhang

In this paper, we improve the size requirement of the perturbations for the asymptotic stability of the Couette flow in stratified fluids governed by the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq system. More precisely, the size of perturbed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Binqian Niu , Weiren Zhao

We address a threshold problem of the Couette flow $(y,0)$ in a uniform magnetic field $(\beta,0)$ for the 2D MHD equation on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$ with fluid viscosity $\nu$ and magnetic resistivity $\mu$. The nonlinear enhanced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Fei Wang , Zeren Zhang

We study an outflow problem for the $3$-dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The fluid under consideration occupies the exterior domain of the unit ball $\Omega=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^3\,\vert\, |x|\ge 1\}$ and it is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Yucong Huang , Shinya Nishibata

We consider a system describing the long-time dynamics of an hydrodynamical, density-dependent flow under the effects of gravitational forces. We prove that if the Froude number is sufficiently small such system is globally well posed with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Stefano Scrobogna

In this article, we prove that the threshold of instability of the classical Couette flow in $H^s$ for large $s$ is $\nu^{1/2}$. The instability is completely driven by the boundary. The dynamic of the flow creates a Prandtl type boundary…

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We obtain existence and conormal Sobolev regularity of strong solutions to the 3D compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes system on the half-space with a Navier boundary condition, over a time that is uniform with respect to the viscosity…

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This paper establishes the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow for the 2D Boussinesq equations with only vertical dissipation. The Boussinesq equations concerned here model buoyancy-driven fluids such as atmospheric and oceanographic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Wen Deng , Jiahong Wu , Ping Zhang

We investigate the existence of stationary and traveling wave solutions to the 2D Euler equations near the Couette flow in the infinite channel $\mathbb{R} \times [-1,1]$. For Sobolev spaces $W^{s,p}$ or H\"older spaces $C^s$, we identify…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dengjun Guo , Xiaoyutao Luo , Guolin Qin

As is well known, for the 3D Patlak-Keller-Segel system, regardless of whether they are parabolic-elliptic or parabolic-parabolic forms, finite-time blow-up may occur for arbitrarily small values of the initial mass. In this paper, it is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Shikun Cui , Lili Wang , Wendong Wang

We propose a novel stability criterion for incompressible shear flows by combining input-output analysis and the small-gain theorem. The criterion yields an explicit threshold on the magnitude of velocity perturbations about a given base…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-04 Ofek Frank-Shapir , Igal Gluzman

In this paper, we study the global existence and low Mach number limit of strong solutions to the 2-D full compressible Navier-Stokes equations around the plane Couette flow in a horizontally periodic layer with non-slip and isothermal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Tuowei Chen , Qiangchang Ju

We study the stability of the Kolmogorov flows which are stationary solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of the shear external force. We establish the linear stability estimate when the viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Slim Ibrahim , Yasunori Maekawa , Nader Masmoudi