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We examine how known unstable equilibria of the Navier-Stokes equations in plane Couette flow adapt to the presence of an imposed stable density difference between the two boundaries for varying values of the Prandtl number $Pr$, the ratio…

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We study the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a channel $\Omega=(0,L)\times(0,H)$ with small viscosity $\varepsilon\ll1$, an $\varepsilon$-Navier slip condition on the horizontal walls, and a viscous inflow…

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We examine the conjecture of equivalence of nonequilibrium ensembles for turbulent flows in two-dimensions (2D) in a dual-cascade setup. We construct a formally time-reversible Navier-Stokes equations in 2D by imposing global constraints of…

In this paper, we study the nonlinear stability of a steady circular flow created between two rotating concentric cylinders. The dynamics of the viscous fluid are described by 2D Navier-Stokes equations. We adopt scaling variables. For the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Xinliang An , Taoran He , Te Li

In this paper, we investigate the long-time behavior of solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with initial data evolving under the influence of the planar Couette flow. We focus on general perturbations, which may be…

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Based on Dou Huashu's energy gradient theory, this paper focuses on the weak singularity of the incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations in steady, fully developed flows. When the gradient of total mechanical energy is perpendicular to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Chio Chon Kit

In this paper we prove Liouville type theorem for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in $\Bbb R^3$ under the assumptions on the relative decays of velocity, pressure and the head pressure. More precisely, we show that any smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Dongho Chae

We consider the solution to the 2D Navier-Stokes equations around the Poiseuille flow $(y^2,0)$ on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$ with small viscosity $\nu>0$. Via a hypocoercivity argument, we prove that the $x-$dependent modes of the…

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We consider the three-dimensional steady Navier-Stokes system in the exterior of an infinite cylinder under the action of an external force. We construct solutions in the class of vertically uniform flows which vanish at horizontal…

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In this paper, we prove the stability of Couette flow for 2D Navier-Stokes Boussinesq system without thermal diffusivity for the initial perturbation in Gevrey-$\frac{1}{s}$, ($1/3<s\leq 1$). The synergism of density mixing, vorticity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Nader Masmoudi , Belkacem Said-Houari , Weiren Zhao

In this paper, we study the asymptotic stability for the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes Boussinesq system around the Couette flow with small viscosity $\nu$ and small thermal diffusion $\mu$ in a finite channel. In particular, we prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Nader Masmoudi , Cuili Zhai , Weiren Zhao

This work employs for the first time invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations to study the interaction between finite-size particles and near-wall coherent structures. We consider horizontal plane Couette flow and focus on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-25 Tiago Pestana , Markus Uhlmann , Genta Kawahara

We consider the two-dimensional incompressible inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations with odd viscosity, where the shear and the odd viscosity coefficients depend continuously on the unknown density function. We establish the existence of…

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In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flows. The initial data are assumed to be smooth and rapidly decaying at infinity. A famous open problem is whether classical solutions can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Jens Lorenz , Paulo R. Zingano

We study the boundary value problem for the stationary Navier--Stokes system in two dimensional exterior domain. We prove that any solution of this problem with finite Dirichlet integral is uniformly bounded. Also we prove the existence…

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The large deformations and break up of circular 2D liquid patches in a high Reynolds number (Re=1000) gas flow are investigated numerically. The 2D, plane flow Navier--Stokes equations are directly solved with explicit tracking of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Zaleski , Jie Li , S. Succi

We formulate the flow of thick fluids as evolution variational and quasi-variational inequalities, with a variable threshold on the absolute value of the deformation rate tensor. In the variational case, we show the existence and uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jos\é Francisco Rodrigues , Lisa Santos

The NS equation is considered (in 2 & 3 dimensions) with a fixed forcing on large scale; the stationary states form a family of probability distributions on the fluid velocity fields depending on a parameter R (Reynolds number). It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-02 Giovanni Gallavotti

This paper is devoted to the study of the nonlinear instability of shear layers and of Prandtl's boundary layers, for the incompressible Navier Stokes equations. We prove that generic shear layers are nonlinearly unstable provided the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Dongfen Bian , Emmanuel Grenier

The 2D Euler system, which governs inviscid incompressible fluid flow, can admit infinitely many steady solutions in a given domain with slip boundary conditions. To select physical classical solutions, we investigate the vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Changfeng Gui , Chunjing Xie , Huan Xu