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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

This paper examines the linearized stability of plane Couette flow for stress-power law fluids, which exhibit non-monotonic stress-strain rate behavior. The constitutive model is derived from a thermodynamic framework using a non-convex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 Krishna Kaushik Yanamundra , Lorenzo Fusi

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

In this paper, we prove the decay estimates of the velocity and $H^1$ scattering for the 2D linearized Euler equations around a class of monotone shear flow in a finite channel. Our result is consistent with the decay rate predicted by Case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang , Weiren Zhao

The linear stability of rectilinear compressible vortex sheets is studied for two-dimensional isentropic elastic flows. This problem has a free boundary and the boundary is characteristic. A necessary and sufficient condition is obtained…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Robin Ming Chen , Jilong Hu , Dehua Wang

In this article we establish linear inviscid damping with optimal decay rates around 2D Taylor-Couette flow and similar monotone flows in an annular domain $B_{r_{2}}(0) \setminus B_{r_{1}}(0) \subset \mathbb{R}^{2}$. Following recent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-20 Christian Zillinger

From the perspective of asymptotic stability at high Reynolds numbers, Taylor-Couette flow, as a typical rotating shear flow, exhibits rich decay behaviors. Previously, for the extensively studied Couette flow or the Taylor-Couette flow in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Te Li , Ping Zhang , Yibin Zhang

Neither natural nor laboratory laminar flows are perfectly steady. Instead, they are frequently highly unsteady, as illustrated by experimental studies on B\'{e}nard convection. In the paper, we investigate the transition threshold of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Qionglei Chen , Zhen Li

We study small disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. We prove that for sufficiently regular initial data of size $\epsilon \leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Jacob Bedrossian , Pierre Germain , Nader Masmoudi

We consider barotropic instability of shear flows for incompressible fluids with Coriolis effects. For a class of shear flows, we develop a new method to find the sharp stability conditions. We study the flow with Sinus profile in details…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Zhiwu Lin , Jincheng Yang , Hao Zhu

We study the asymptotic behavior of the forced linear Euler and nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations close to Couette flow in a periodic channel. As our main result we show that for smooth time-periodic forcing linear inviscid damping…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Christian Zillinger

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

Compressible vortex sheets are fundamental waves in entropy solutions to the multidimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. For the Euler equations in 2-D gas dynamics, the classical linearized stability analysis on compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gui-Qiang Chen , Ya-Guang Wang

We present the stability analysis of a plane Couette flow which is stably stratified in the vertical direction orthogonally to the horizontal shear. Interest in such a flow comes from geophysical and astrophysical applications where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Giulio Facchini , Benjamin Favier , Patrice Le Gal , Meng Wang , Michael Le Bars

In this work, we prove a threshold theorem for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations posed on the periodic channel, $\mathbb{T} \times [-1,1]$, supplemented with Navier boundary conditions $\omega|_{y = \pm 1} = 0$. Initial datum is taken to be a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Jacob Bedrossian , Siming He , Sameer Iyer , Fei Wang

We consider the long-time behavior of solutions to the two dimensional non-homogeneous Euler equations under the Boussinesq approximation posed on a periodic channel. We study the linearized system near a linearly stratified Couette flow…

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

We study the behavior of solutions to the incompressible $2d$ Euler equations near two canonical shear flows with critical points, the Kolmogorov and Poiseuille flows, with consequences for the associated Navier-Stokes problems. We exhibit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Michele Coti Zelati , Tarek M. Elgindi , Klaus Widmayer

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 prove a stability threshold theorem for 2D Navier-Stokes on three unbounded domains: the whole plane $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}$, the half plane $\mathbb{R} \times [0,\infty)$ with Navier boundary conditions, and the infinite channel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ryan Arbon , Jacob Bedrossian

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