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Rayleigh's stability analysis of cylindrical Couette flow, of 1889 and 1916, is in contradiction with observation. The analysis is repeated in many textbooks and reviews up to 2017, and its failure to agree with observation was duly noted.…

General Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Christian Fronsdal

The stability of two-dimensional Poiseuille flow and plane Couette flow for concentrated suspensions is investigated. Linear stability analysis of the two-phase flow model for both flow geometries shows the existence of a convectively…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-09 Tobias Ahnert , Andreas Münch , Barbara Niethammer , Barbara Wagner

This paper addresses the stability of plane Couette flow in the presence of strong density and viscosity stratifications. It demonstrates the existence of a generalised inflection point that satisfies the generalised Fjortoft's criterion of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-13 B. Bugeat , P. C. Boldini , A. M. Hasan , R. Pecnik

We analyze the stability of a cylindrical Couette flow under the imposition of a weak axial flow in case of a very short cylinder with a narrow annulus gap. We consider an incompressible viscous fluid which is contained in the narrow gap…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Bordag , O. G. Chkhetiani , M. Froehner , V. Myrnyy

This paper examines the linearized stability of plane Couette flow for stress-power law fluids, which exhibit non-monotonic stress-strain rate behavior. The constitutive model is derived from a thermodynamic framework using a non-convex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 Krishna Kaushik Yanamundra , Lorenzo Fusi

In this paper, we investigate the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow for the two-dimensional compressible Navier--Stokes equations at high Reynolds numbers ($Re$) regime. It was proved that if the initial data $(\rho_{in},u_{in})$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Minling Li , Chao Wang , Zhifei Zhang

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

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

We present a new application of Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT): the stability analysis of fluid flows. As a test case that demonstrates the framework we focus on the plane Couette flow. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equation is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-01 Sharvari Nadkarni-Ghosh , Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee

It is shown that linear instability of plane Couette flow can take place even at finite Reynolds numbers which meets with known experimental data. This new result of the linear theory of hydrodynamic stability is obtained only due by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-06 Sergey G. Chefranov , Alexander G. Chefranov

The stability of two-dimensional buoyancy-driven convection in a vertical porous slot, wherein a plane Couette flow is additionally present, is studied. This complex fluid flow scenario is examined under the influence of Robin-type boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-08 B. M. Shankar , I. S. Shivakumara

We investigate the Couette-Taylor problem for a steady incompressible viscous fluid in a 3D cylindrical annulus, where one of the two cylinders is still, under both Dirichlet and boundary conditions involving the vorticity that naturally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Edoardo Bocchi , Filippo Gazzola , Antonio Hidalgo-Torné

Plane Couette flow of visco-elastic fluids is shown to exhibit a purely elastic subcritical instability in spite of being linearly stable. The mechanism of this instability is proposed and the nonlinear stability analysis of plane Couette…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander N. Morozov , Wim van Saarloos

We prove the instability of the Couette flow if the disturbances is less smooth than the Gevrey space of class 2. This shows that this is the critical regularity for this problem since it was proved in [5] that stability and inviscid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Yu Deng , Nader Masmoudi

We investigate the inelastic hard disk gas sheared by two parallel bumpy walls (Couette-flow). In our molecular dynamic simulations we found a sensitivity to the asymmetries of the initial condition of the particle places and velocities and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Sasvari , J. Kertesz , D. E. Wolf

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

In this paper, we study the linear stability properties of perturbations around the homogeneous Couette flow for a 2D isentropic compressible fluid in the domain $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. In the inviscid case there is a generic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Paolo Antonelli , Michele Dolce , Pierangelo Marcati

Rotation significantly influences the stability characteristics of both laminar and turbulent shear flows. This study examines the stability threshold of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with rotation, in the vicinity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Wenting Huang , Ying Sun , Xiaojing Xu

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
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