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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

Let the viscosity $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$ for the 2D steady Navier-Stokes equations in the region $0\leq x\leq L$ and $0\leq y<\infty$ with no slip boundary conditions at $y=0$. For $L<<1$, we justify the validity of the steady Prandtl…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Yan Guo , Sameer Iyer

Despite the physical importance, there are limited mathematical theories for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with strong boundary layers. This is mainly due to the absence of a stream function structure, unlike the extensively…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Shengxin Li , Tong Yang , Zhu Zhang

In this paper, we establish the mathematical validity of the Prandtl boundary layer theory for a class of nonlinear plane parallel flow of nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The convergence for the density and velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin , Dongjuan Niu

In this paper, we derive sharp bounds on the semigroup of the linearized incompressible Navier-Stokes equations near a stationary shear layer in the half plane and in the half space ($\mathbb{R}_+^2$ or $\mathbb{R}_+^3$), with Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Emmanuel Grenier , Toan T. Nguyen

This book is devoted to the study of the linear and nonlinear stability of shear flows and boundary layers for Navier Stokes equations for incompressible fluids with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the case of small viscosity. The aim of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Emmanuel Grenier , Toan T. Nguyen

Assume no-slip boundary conditions for the velocity field and either insulated or Dirichlet boundary conditions for the temperature field in a steady compressible fluid. In the inviscid limit $\v \rightarrow 0$, we develop a mathematical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yan Guo , Yong Wang

In this paper, we investigate the vanishing viscosity limit for solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations with a Navier slip boundary condition on general compact and smooth domains in $\mathbf{R}^3$. We first obtain the higher order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Lizhen Wang , Zhouping Xin , Aibin Zang

In this three-part monograph, we prove that steady, incompressible Navier-Stokes flows posed over the moving boundary, $y = 0$, can be decomposed into Euler and Prandtl flows in the inviscid limit globally in $[1,\infty) \times [0,\infty)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Sameer Iyer

The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and static Euler equations are considered. We find that there exist infinite non-trivial regular solutions of incompressible static Euler equations with given boundary conditions. Moreover there…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Yongqian Han

We compute the solutions of Prandtl's and Navier-Stokes equations for the two dimensional flow induced by a rectilinear vortex interacting with a boundary in the half plane. For this initial datum Prandtl's equation develops, in a finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Francesco Gargano , Marco Sammartino , Vincenzo Sciacca

In this paper, we are concerned with the validity of Prandtl boundary layer expansion for the solutions to two dimensional (2D) steady viscous incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a domain $\{(X, Y)\in[0,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin , Feng Xie

For steady two-dimensional flows with a single eddy (i.e. nested closed streamlines), Prandtl (1905) and Batchelor (1956) proposed that in the limit of vanishing viscosity the vorticity is constant in an inner region separated from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Mingwen Fei , Chen Gao , Zhiwu Lin , Tao Tao

We consider the problem of the strong convergence, as the viscosity goes to zero, of the solutions to the three-dimensional evolutionary Navier-Stokes equations under a Navier slip-type boundary condition to the solution of the Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-08 H. Beirao da Veiga , F. Crispo

We study the high Reynolds number limit of a viscous fluid in the presence of a rough boundary. We consider the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier slip boundary condition, in a domain whose boundaries exhibit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-23 David Gérard-Varet , Christophe Lacave , Toan T. Nguyen , Frédéric Rousset

We establish the validity of the Euler$+$Prandtl approximation for solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in the half plane with Dirichlet boundary conditions, in the vanishing viscosity limit, for initial data which are analytic only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Igor Kukavica , Trinh Nguyen , Vlad Vicol , Fei Wang

In this paper we investigate the asymptotic validity of boundary layer theory. For a flow induced by a periodic row of point-vortices, we compare Prandtl's solution to Navier-Stokes solutions at different $Re$ numbers. We show how Prandtl's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Francesco Gargano , Marco Sammartino , Vincenzo Sciacca , Kevin Cassel

We study the inviscid limit problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation on a half-plane with a Navier boundary condition depending on the viscosity. On one hand, we prove the $L^2$ convergence of Leray solutions to the solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Matthew Paddick

In this paper, we establish vanishing viscosity limit of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations in a horizontally periodic strip. On the vertical direction, the horizontal component of the velocity is subjected to two different types of boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xinghong Pan , Jianfeng Zhao

The aim of this paper is to describe the long time behavior of solutions of linearized Navier Stokes equations near a concave shear layer profile in the long waves regime, namely for small horizontal Fourier variable $\alpha$, when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Dongfen Bian , Emmanuel Grenier