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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Qi Chen , Hao Jia , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

This paper establishes the asymptotic stability threshold for the Couette flow $(y,0)$ under the 2D Boussinesq system in $\mathbb{R}^2$. It was proved that for initial perturbations in Sobolev spaces with controlled low horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yubo Chen , Wendong Wang , Guoxu Yang

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

In this paper, we construct growing modes of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations about generic stationary shear flows of the boundary layer type in a regime of sufficiently large Reynolds number: $R \to \infty$. Notably, the shear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Emmanuel Grenier , Yan Guo , Toan T. Nguyen

In this paper, we prove the stability of shear flows of Prandtl type as $ \big(U(y/\sqrt{\nu}),0\big)$ for the steady Navier-Stokes equations under a natural spectral assumption on the linearized NS operator. We develop a direct energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Qi Chen , Di Wu , Zhifei Zhang

In this note we establish a density result for certain stationary shear flows, $\mu(y)$, that vanish at the boundaries of a horizontal channel. We construct stationary solutions to 2D Navier-Stokes that are $\epsilon$-close in $L^\infty$ to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Sameer Iyer , Chunhui Zhou

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

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 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

We prove the asymptotic stability of shear flows close to the Couette flow for the 2-D inhomogeneous incompressible Euler equations on $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. More precisely, if the initial velocity is close to the Couette flow and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Qi Chen , Dongyi Wei , Ping Zhang , Zhifei Zhang

In this paper we reveal the existence of a large family of new, nontrivial and smooth traveling waves for the 2D Euler equation at an arbitrarily small distance from the Couette flow in $H^s$, with $s<3/2$, at the level of the vorticity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Ángel Castro , Daniel Lear

A new exact solution of the Navier-Stokes equation is derived for the compressible flows which are far from equilibrium in the limit of extremely low shear viscosity and relatively large volume viscosity. The closed description of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-05 Sergey G. Chefranov , Artem S. Chefranov

First, we consider Kolmogorov flow (a shear flow with a sinusoidal velocity profile) for 2D Navier-Stokes equation on a torus. Such flows, also called bar states, have been numerically observed as one type of metastable states in the study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Zhiwu Lin , Ming Xu

We prove that the Navier-Stokes equation is well-posed in function spaces on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 2$, that contain vector fields of order $O(|x|^\kappa)$ as $|x|\to\infty$ with $\kappa<1/2$. The corresponding solutions depend continuously…

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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-13 Matthew Paddick

We study the immersed boundary problem in 2-D. It models a 1-D elastic closed string immersed and moving in a fluid that fills the entire plane, where the fluid motion is governed by the 2-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equation with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Jiajun Tong , Dongyi Wei

The subject of this work is the instability mechanism of simple shear flows, like Hagen-Poiseuille pipe flow, which is a long-standing problem in fluid mechanics [1,2]. A possible analogy with phenomenological theory of ideal plasticity in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Ananiev

We are concerned with the linear stability of the Couette flow for the non-isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with vanished shear viscosity in a domain $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. For a general initial data settled in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Xiaoping Zhai

In this paper, we consider the solvability of the two-dimensional stationary Navier--Stokes equations on the whole plane $\mathbb{R}^2$. In [6], it was proved that the stationary Navier--Stokes equations on $\mathbb{R}^2$ is ill-posed for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Mikihiro Fujii , Hiroyuki Tsurumi

We study the stationary Navier--Stokes equations in the region between two rotating concentric cylinders. We first prove that, under the small Reynolds number, if the fluid is axisymmetric and if its velocity is sufficiently small in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hideo Kozono , Yutaka Terasawa , Yuta Wakasugi