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In $1904$, Prandtl introduced his famous boundary layer in order to describe the behavior of solutions of incompressible Navier Stokes equations near a boundary as the viscosity goes to $0$. His Ansatz was that the solution of Navier Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Emmanuel Grenier , Toan T. Nguyen

In this paper, we study the zero-viscosity limit of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in a half-space with non-slip boundary condition. We justify the Prandtl boundary layer expansion for the analytic data: the compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Chao Wang , Yuxi Wang , Zhifei Zhang

We study the $L^{\infty}$ stability of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations with a viscosity-dependent Navier boundary condition around shear profiles which are linearly unstable for the Euler equation. The dependence from the viscosity is given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Lorenzo Quarisa , José L. Rodrigo

For a general class of hyperbolic-parabolic systems including the compressible Navier-Stokes and compressible MHD equations, we prove existence and stability of noncharacteristic viscous boundary layers for a variety of boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Olivier Gues , Guy Metivier , Mark Williams , Kevin Zumbrun

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

Despite its importance, there have been few PDE results to investigate Prandtl layers for compressible fluids, in which the thermal boundary layer for the temperature field interacts with the classical velocity Prandtl boundary layer in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Yan Guo , Yong Wang

A semi-explicit formula of solution to the boundary layer system for thermal layer derived from the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with the non-slip boundary condition when the viscosity coefficients vanish is given, in particular in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Cheng-Jie Liu , Ya-Guang Wang , Tong Yang

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jake Langham , Tom S. Eaves , Rich R. Kerswell

We consider the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations in a half space, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that the inviscid limit holds in the energy norm if the product of the components of the Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Peter Constantin , Tarek Elgindi , Mihaela Ignatova , Vlad Vicol

A global approach leading to a self-consistent solution to the Navier-Stokes-Prandtl equations for zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers is presented. It is shown that as $Re_{\delta}\rightarrow \infty$, the dynamically defined boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 victor yakhot

The quasi-neutral limit of the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system modeling a viscous plasma with vanishing viscosity coefficients in the half-space $\mathbb{R}^{3}_{+}$ is rigorously proved under a Navier-slip boundary condition for velocity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Qiangchang Ju , Tao Luo , Xin Xu

In this paper we shall consider the Navier-Stokes equations in the half plane with Euler-type initial conditions, i.e. initial conditions which have a non-zero tangential component at the boundary. Under analyticity assumptions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Andrea Argenziano , Marco Cannone , Marco Sammartino

We analyze the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on a smooth, bounded domain with Navier boundary conditions. Starting from an initial vorticity in $L^p$ with $p>2$, we show strong convergence of the vorticity in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Josef Demmel , Emil Wiedemann

In this paper we show how the stability of Prandtl boundary layers is linked to the stability of shear flows in the incompressible Navier Stokes equations. We then recall classical physical instability results, and give a short educational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Emmanuel Grenier , Yan Guo , Toan T. Nguyen

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

In this paper, we validate the boundary layer theory for 2D steady viscous incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a domain $\{(X, Y)\in[0, L]\times\mathbb{R}_+\}$ under the assumption of a moving boundary at $\{Y=0\}$. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Shijin Ding , Zhijun Ji , Zhilin Lin

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 study the inviscid limit of the free surface incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with or without surface tension. By delicate estimates, we prove the weak boundary layer of the velocity of the free surface Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Fuzhou Wu

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

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