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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 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

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

This paper concerns spectral instability of shear flows in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with sufficiently large Reynolds number: $R\to \infty$. It is well-documented in the physical literature, going back to Heisenberg, C.C.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Emmanuel Grenier , Yan Guo , Toan Nguyen

In this paper, we study the transition threshold of the 3D Couette flow in Sobolev space at high Reynolds number $\text{Re}$. It was proved that if the initial velocity $v_0$ satisfies $\|v_0-(y,0,0)\|_{H^2}\le c_0\text{Re}^{-1}$, then the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 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

We study the behavior of solutions to the incompressible $2d$ Euler equations near two canonical shear flows with critical points, the Kolmogorov and Poiseuille flows, with consequences for the associated Navier-Stokes problems. We exhibit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Michele Coti Zelati , Tarek M. Elgindi , Klaus Widmayer

We investigate the stability of boundary layer solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We consider shear flow solutions of Prandtl type : $$ u^\nu(t,x,y) \, = \, \big (U^E(t,y) +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 David Gerard-Varet , Yasunori Maekawa , Nader Masmoudi

We prove the existence and stability of smooth solutions to the steady Navier-Stokes equations near plane Poiseuille-Couette flow. Consequently, we also provide the zero viscosity limit of the 2D steady Navier-Stokes equations to the steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Song Jiang , Chunhui Zhou

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Zhile Li

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

In this article, we study the 2D incompressible steady Navier-Stokes equation in a channel $(-L,0)\times(-1,1)$ with the no-slip boundary condition on $\{Y = \pm 1\}$, and consider the inviscid limit $\varepsilon \to 0$. In the special case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Yan Guo , Zhuolun Yang

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

In this paper, we consider the stability threshold for the shear flows of the Boussinesq system in a domain $\mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$. The main goal is to prove the nonlinear stability of the shear flow $(U^S,\Theta^S)=((e^{\nu…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Dongfen Bian , Xueke Pu

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

We consider the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbf{R}$, with initial vorticity that is $\delta$ close in $H^{log}_xL^2_{y}$ to $-1$(the vorticity of the Couette flow $(y,0)$). We prove that if $\delta\ll…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

In this paper, we study the stability for 2-D plane Poiseuille flow $(1-y^2,0)$ in a channel $\mathbb{T}\times (-1,1)$ with Navier-slip boundary condition. We prove that if the initial perturbation for velocity field $u_0$ satisfies that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin

In this work we study the long time, inviscid limit of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations near the periodic Couette flow, and in particular, we confirm at the nonlinear level the qualitative behavior predicted by Kelvin's 1887 linear analysis.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Jacob Bedrossian , Nader Masmoudi , Vlad Vicol

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Xiaoxia Ren , Wei Dongyi

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