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First, we consider Kolmogorov flow (a shear flow with a sinusoidal velocity profile) for 2D Navier-Stokes equation on a torus. Such flows, also called bar states, have been numerically observed as one type of metastable states in the study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Zhiwu Lin , Ming Xu

This article is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the two-dimensional inviscid Boussinesq equations with a damping term in the velocity equation. Precisely, we provide the time-decay rates of the smooth solutions to that system. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Roberta Bianchini , Roberto Natalini

We study the linear stability of a class of monotone shear flows. When the associated Rayleigh operator possesses a neutral embedded eigenvalue, we show that solutions of the linearized system may exhibit arbitrarily large growth in both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Hui Li , Siqi Ren , Yuxi Wang , Guoqing Zhang

We consider a two-dimensional, two-layer, incompressible, steady flow, with vorticity which is constant in each layer, in an infinite channel with rigid walls. The velocity is continuous across the interface, there is no surface tension or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

We investigate the long-time properties of the two-dimensional inviscid Boussinesq equations near a stably stratified Couette flow, for an initial Gevrey perturbation of size $\varepsilon$. Under the classical Miles-Howard stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Jacob Bedrossian , Roberta Bianchini , Michele Coti Zelati , Michele Dolce

We study the asymptotic behavior and the asymptotic stability of the two-dimensional Euler equations and of the two-dimensional linearized Euler equations close to parallel flows. We focus on spectrally stable jet profiles $U(y)$ with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Freddy Bouchet , Hidetoshi Morita

We study the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a channel $\Omega=(0,L)\times(0,H)$ with small viscosity $\varepsilon\ll1$, an $\varepsilon$-Navier slip condition on the horizontal walls, and a viscous inflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yan Guo , Zhuolun Yang

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

Incompressible Euler flows in narrow domains, in which the horizontal length scale is much larger than other scales, play an important role in applications, and their leading-order behavior can be described by the hydrostatic Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Wang Shing Leung , Tak Kwong Wong , Chunjing Xie

We investigate the stability of boundary layer solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We consider shear flow solutions of Prandtl type : $$ u^\nu(t,x,y) \, = \, \big (U^E(t,y) +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 David Gerard-Varet , Yasunori Maekawa , Nader Masmoudi

This paper extends the mathematical theory of axisymmetrization and vorticity depletion within the two-dimensional (2D) Euler equations, with an emphasis on the dynamics of radially symmetric, monotonic vorticity profiles. By analyzing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-14 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos

This short note provides explicit solutions to the linearized Boussinesq equations around the stably stratified Couette flow posed on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$. We consider the long-time behavior of such solutions and prove inviscid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Michele Coti Zelati , Marc Nualart

We consider the (in)stability problem of the inviscid 2D Boussinesq equations near a combination of a shear flow $v=(y,0)$ and a stratified temperature $\theta=\alpha y$ with $\alpha>\frac{1}{4}$. We show that for any $\epsilon>0$ there…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Christian Zillinger

We study the existence and zero viscous limit of smooth solutions to steady compressible Navier-Stokes equations near plane shear flow between two moving parallel walls. Under the assumption $0<L\ll1$, we prove that for any plane supersonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Song Jiang , Chunhui Zhou

The Euler equations on a three-dimensional periodic domain have a family of shear flow steady states. We show that the linearised system around these steady states decomposes into subsystems equivalent to the linearisation of shear flows in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Holger R. Dullin , Joachim Worthington

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

A necessary and sufficient condition for linear stability of inviscid parallel shear flow is formulated by developing a novel variational principle, where the velocity profile is assumed to be monotonic and analytic. It is shown that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Makoto Hirota , Philip J. Morrison , Yuji Hattori

In this paper, we develop a stability threshold theorem for the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on the channel, supplemented with the no-slip boundary condition. The initial datum is close to the Couette flow in the following…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jacob Bedrossian , Siming He , Sameer Iyer , Linfeng Li , Fei Wang

In this paper, we establish two stability theorems for steady or traveling solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equation in a finite periodic channel, extending Arnold's classical work from the 1960s. Compared to Arnold's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Guodong Wang

We consider the 2D Boussinesq equations with a velocity damping term in a strip $\mathbb{T}\times[-1,1]$, with impermeable walls. In this physical scenario, where the \textit{Boussinesq approximation} is accurate when density/temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Daniel Lear