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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Piotr B. Mucha

We study the existence and zero viscous limit of smooth solutions to steady compressible Navier-Stokes equations near plane shear flow between two moving parallel walls. Under the assumption $0<L\ll1$, we prove that for any plane supersonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Song Jiang , Chunhui Zhou

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

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Song Jiang , Quan Wang

We investigate the linear stability of shears near the Couette flow for a class of 2D incompressible stably stratified fluids. Our main result consists of nearly optimal decay rates for perturbations of stationary states whose velocities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Roberta Bianchini , Michele Coti Zelati , Michele Dolce

We study the high Reynolds number limit of a viscous fluid in the presence of a rough boundary. We consider the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier slip boundary condition, in a domain whose boundaries exhibit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-23 David Gérard-Varet , Christophe Lacave , Toan T. Nguyen , Frédéric Rousset

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Tao Liang , Jiahong Wu , Xiaoping Zhai

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

The stability problem for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations with dissipation in only one direction on $\mathbb R^2$ is not fully understood. This dissipation is in the intermediate regime between the fully dissipative Navier-Stokes and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Zhibin Wang , Jiahong Wu , Ning Zhu

This is the second in a pair of works which study small disturbances to the plane, periodic 3D Couette flow in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. In this work, we show that there is constant $0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Jacob Bedrossian , Pierre Germain , Nader Masmoudi

We investigate the stability of the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations in the infinite channel $\mathbb{R}\times [-1,1]$ with the Navier-slip boundary condition. We show that if the initial perturbations $\omega^{in}$ around the Couette flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Qionglei Chen , Zhen Li , Changxing Miao

We investigate the existence and the zero viscosity limit of steady compressible shear flow with Navier-slip boundary condition in the absence of any external force in a two-dimension domain $\Omega=(0,L)\times(0,2)$. More precisely, under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Wenbin Li , Chunhui Zhou

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of Couette flow on the half plane with Navier-slip boundary conditions. We prove that the total vorticity will…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Ning Liu , Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

The stability of idealized shear flow at long wavelengths is studied in detail. A hydrodynamic analysis at the level of the Navier-Stokes equation for small shear rates is given to identify the origin and universality of an instability at…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Jose M. Montanero , Andres Santos , Mirim Lee , James W. Dufty , J. F. Lutsko

In this note, which is of general stability theory interest, we discuss some of the key assertions usually stated in the context of the transition to turbulence problem. In particular, the two main points made here in the setting of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-01 R. Krechetnikov , J. E. Marsden

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Hui Li , Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

In this work, we establish the convergence of 2D, stationary Navier-Stokes flows, $(u^\epsilon, v^\epsilon)$ to the classical Prandtl boundary layer, $(\bar{u}_p, \bar{v}_p)$, posed on the domain $(0, \infty) \times (0, \infty)$:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Sameer Iyer , Nader Masmoudi

In this paper, we study the transition threshold problem for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations around the Poiseuille flow $(1-y^2,0)$ in a finite channel with Navier-slip boundary condition. Based on the resolvent estimates for the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin

In this paper, we investigate the incompressible steady Navier-Stokes system with Navier slip boundary condition in a two-dimensional channel. As long as the width of cross-section of the channel grows more slowly than the linear growth,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Kaijian Sha , Yun Wang , Chunjing Xie

Numerical calculations of the 2-D steady incompressible driven cavity flow are presented. The Navier-Stokes equations in streamfunction and vorticity formulation are solved numerically using a fine uniform grid mesh of 601x601. The steady…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 E. Erturk , T. C. Corke , C. Gokcol