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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 obtain the optimal instability threshold of the Couette flow for Navier-Stokes equations with small viscosity $\nu>0$, when the perturbations are in the critical spaces $H^1_xL_y^2$. More precisely, we introduce a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Hui Li , Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

A well-known unsolved problem (in the classical theory of fluid mechanics) is to identify a set of initial velocities, which may depend on the viscosity, the body forces and possibly the boundary of the fluid that will allow global in time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tepper L Gill , Woodford W. Zachary

In this note, we investigate the stability property of shear flows under the 2D stationary Navier-Stokes equations, and we obtain that the Couette flow $(y,0)$ is stable under the space of $\mathcal{D}^{1,q}(\mathbb{R}^2)$ for any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Wendong Wang

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

In this paper, we study the Navier-Stokes equations of compressible, barotropic flow posed in a bounded set in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with different boundary conditions. Specifically, we prove that the local-in-time smooth solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Anthony Suen

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

We derive a criterion for the breakdown of solutions to the Oldroyd-B model in $\R^3$ in the limit of zero Reynolds number (creeping flow). If the initial stress field is in the Sobolev space $H^m$, $m> 5/2$, then either a unique solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Raz Kupferman , Claude Mangoubi , Edriss S. Titi

A few basic, intuitive, properties of the Navier-Stokes system of equations for incompressible fluid flows are discussed in this paper. We present a rephrased interpretation of the Navier-Stokes equation in a space having an arbitrary…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-06-28 R. K. Michael Thambynayagam

We prove the existence and stability of smooth solutions to the steady Navier-Stokes equations near plane Poiseuille-Couette flow. Consequently, we also provide the zero viscosity limit of the 2D steady Navier-Stokes equations to the steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Song Jiang , Chunhui Zhou

In this article, three dimensional (3D) lid-driven cubic cavity flows have been studied numerically for various values of Reynolds number ($Re$). The numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations modeling incompressible viscous fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-26 Shang-Huan Chiu , Tsorng-Whay Pan , Jiwen He , Aixia Guo , Roland Glowinski

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

In this study we consider the stability and transitions for the Poiseuille flow of a second grade fluid which is a model for non-Newtonian fluids. We restrict our attention to flows in an infinite pipe with circular cross section that are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Saadet Ozer , Taylan Sengul

Consider the Navier-Stokes flow in 3-dimensional exterior domains, where a rigid body is translating with prescribed translational velocity $-h(t)u_\infty$ with constant vector $u_\infty\in \mathbb R^3\setminus\{0\}$. Finn raised the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Toshiaki Hishida , Paolo Maremonti

The paper proves existence of a large class of smooth solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the three dimensional space. The viscosity coefficient is put to be $1$. Our result points a new class of regular solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Piotr B. Mucha

The 3D spatially periodic Navier-Stokes equation is posed as a nonlinear matrix differential equation. When the flow is assumed to be a time series having unknown wavenumber coefficients, then the matrix in this periodic Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-08-28 David T. Purvance

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

We prove some smoothing effects for the 3-D Navier-Stokes equations for initial data belonging to the critical Sobolev space $H^{1/2}(\R^3)$. Asymptotic behavior of the global solution when the time goes to infinity is studied. We also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-07-01 Jamel Benameur

We deal with the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations subject to large external potential forces with slip boundary condition in a 3D simply connected bounded domain, whose smooth boundary has a finite number of 2D connected…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Guocai Cai , Bin Huang , Xiaoding Shi

For the incompressible Navier-Stokes flows passing a certain type of cones $D$ with the Navier total-slip boundary condition, we show that there exists an absolute constant $C_* > 0$ such that if \[ \sup_{x\in D}r|v_{0,\theta}|\leq C_*…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Zijin Li , Xin Yang , Qi S. Zhang