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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

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

The dynamics of transitional flows are governed by an interplay between the non-normal linear dynamics and quadratic nonlinearity in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. In this work, we propose a framework for nonlinear stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-28 Aniketh Kalur , Peter Seiler , Maziar S. Hemati

In this paper, we establish the asymptotic linear stability of a class of Coriolis-driven columnar vortices for the 3-D axisymmetric Euler equations. This result represents a critical step toward proving the nonlinear asymptotic stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Shuang Miao , Siqi Ren , Zhifei Zhang

This dissertation is about the study of three important issues in the theory of relativistic fluid dynamics: the stability of dissipative fluid dynamics, the shear viscosity, and fluid dynamics with triangle anomaly.(1)The second order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-31 Shi Pu

This paper is concerned with the 2-dim two-phase interface Euler equation linearized at a pair of monotone shear flows in both fluids. We extend the Howard's Semicircle Theorem and study the eigenvalue distribution of the linearized Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Xiao Liu

It is well-known that at the high Reynolds number, the linearized Navier-Stokes equations around the inviscid stable shear profile admit growing mode solutions due to the destabilizing effect of the viscosity. This phenomenon, called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Andrew Yang , Zhu Zhang

Within the framework of shallow-water magnetohydrodynamics, we investigate the linear instability of horizontal shear flows, influenced by an aligned magnetic field and stratification. Various classical instability results, such as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-15 Julian Mak , Stephen D. Griffiths , D. W. Hughes

We study the spectral problems for the spatially periodic flows of inviscid incompressible fluid. The basic flows under consideration are the shear flows whose profiles oscillate on high frequencies. For such flows, we present asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-21 Sergey Guda

Shear flows are ubiquitous in astrophysical objects including planetary and stellar interiors, where their dynamics can have significant impact on thermo-chemical processes. Investigating the complex dynamics of shear flows requires…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 V. Witzke , L. J. Silvers , B. Favier

The traditional approximation neglects the cosine components of the Coriolis acceleration, and this approximation has been widely used in the study of geophysical phenomena. However, the justification of the traditional approximation is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-02 Ray Chew , Mark Schlutow , Rupert Klein

The first realization of instabilities in the shear flow between two superfluids is examined. The interface separating the A and B phases of superfluid He-3 is magnetically stabilized. With uniform rotation we create a state with…

The existence and dynamical role of particular unstable Navier-Stokes solutions (exact coherent structures) is revealed in laboratory studies of weak turbulence in a thin, electromagnetically-driven fluid layer. We find that the dynamics…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Balachandra Suri , Jeffrey Tithof , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

We provide the possible resolution for the century old problem of hydrodynamic shear flows, which are apparently stable in linear analysis but shown to be turbulent in astrophysically observed data and experiments. This mismatch is noticed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Sujit Kumar Nath , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

A viscous instability in shearing laminar axisymmetric hydrodynamic flows around a gravitating center is described. In the linearized hydrodynamic equations written in the Boussinesq approximation with microscopic molecular transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Nikolai Shakura , Konstantin Postnov

We investigate the influence of background shear flow on linear resistive tearing instabilities with Joule heating for two compressible plasma slab configurations: a Harris current sheet and a force-free, shearing magnetic field that varies…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jordi De Jonghe , Rony Keppens

In order to analyze numerically inverse problems several techniques based on linear and nonlinear stability analysis are presented. These techniques are illustrated on the problem of estimating mobilities and capillary pressure in…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Jianfeng Zhang , Guy Chavent , Jérôme Jaffré

Computer simulations of sheared granular fluids, modeled as inelastic hard spheres, are presented which show signs of a uniquely three-dimensional instabilty. In the stable regime, a linear velocity profile, $v_{x}=ay$, with shear rate $a$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 James F. Lutsko

We extend the dynamic van der Waals model introduced by A. Onuki [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 054501 (2005)] to the description of cohesive granular flows under a plane shear to study their hydrodynamic instabilities. Numerically solving the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Kuniyasu Saitoh , Satoshi Takada , Hisao Hayakawa

In this paper, we prove the linear damping for the 2-D Euler equations around a class of shear flows under the assumption that the linearized operator has no embedding eigenvalues. For the symmetric flows, we obtain the explicit decay…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang , Weiren Zhao