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In this paper, we study the transition threshold problem for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations around the Couette flow $(y,0)$ at large Reynolds number $Re$ in a finite channel. We develop a systematic method to establish the resolvent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Qi Chen , Te Li , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

The transition mechanism from laminar flow to turbulent flow is a central problem in hydrodynamic stability theory. To shed light on this transition mechanism, Trefethen et al.({\it \small Science 1993}) proposed the transition threshold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Minling Li , Changzhen Sun , Chao Wang , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

We study Sobolev regularity disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. Our goal is to estimate how the stability threshold scales in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Jacob Bedrossian , Pierre Germain , Nader Masmoudi

In this paper, we study the transition threshold of the 3D Couette flow in Sobolev space at high Reynolds number $\text{Re}$. It was proved that if the initial velocity $v_0$ satisfies $\|v_0-(y,0,0)\|_{H^2}\le c_0\text{Re}^{-1}$, then the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

In this paper, we study the nonlinear stability for the 3-D plane Poiseuille flow $(1-y^2,0,0)$ at high Reynolds number $Re$ in a finite channel $\mathbb{T}\times [-1,1 ]\times \mathbb{T}$ with non-slip boundary condition. We prove that if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Qi Chen , Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin , Zhifei Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the transition threshold problem concerning the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations in the context of Couette flow $(y,0)$ at high Reynolds number $Re$ in whole space. By utilizing Green's function estimates for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Gaofeng Wang , Weike Wang

In this paper, we investigate the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow for the two-dimensional compressible Navier--Stokes equations at high Reynolds numbers ($Re$) regime. It was proved that if the initial data $(\rho_{in},u_{in})$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Minling Li , Chao Wang , Zhifei Zhang

This is the second in a pair of works which study small disturbances to the plane, periodic 3D Couette flow in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. In this work, we show that there is constant $0…

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

Sommerfeld paradox (turbulence paradox) roughly says that mathematically the Couette linear shear flow is linearly stable for all values of the Reynolds number, but experimentally transition from the linear shear to turbulence occurs under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-20 Yueheng Lan , Y. Charles Li

We study the stability threshold of the 2D Couette flow in Sobolev spaces at high Reynolds number $Re$. We prove that if the initial vorticity $\Omega_{in}$ satisfies $\|\Omega_{in}-(-1)\|_{H^{\sigma}}\leq \epsilon Re^{-1/3}$, then the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

Rotation is a crucial characteristic of fluid flow in the atmosphere and oceans, which is present in nearly all meteorological and geophysical models. The global existence of solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations with large rotation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Wenting Huang , Ying Sun , Xiaojing Xu

In this paper, we consider the stability threshold of the 2D shear flow $(U(y),0)^{\top}$ of the Navier-Stokes equation at high Reynolds number $Re$. When the shear flow is near in Sobolev norm to the Couette flow $(y,0)^{\top}$ in some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Dongfen Bian , Xueke Pu

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

This paper concerns the Couette flow for 2-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations (N-S) in an infinitely long flat torus $\Torus\times\R$. Compared to the incompressible flow, the compressible Couette flow has a stronger lift-up effect and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Feimin Huang , Rui Li , Lingda Xu

In plane Couette flow, the incompressible fluid between two plane parallel walls is driven by the motion of those walls. The laminar solution, in which the streamwise velocity varies linearly in the wall-normal direction, is known to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-28 D. Viswanath

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

Rotation significantly influences the stability characteristics of both laminar and turbulent shear flows. This study examines the stability threshold of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with rotation, in the vicinity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Wenting Huang , Ying Sun , Xiaojing Xu

Sommerfeld paradox roughly says that mathematically Couette linear shear is linearly stable for all Reynolds number, but experimentally arbitrarily small perturbations can induce the transition from the linear shear to turbulence when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-12 Y. Charles Li , Zhiwu Lin

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

In this paper, we study the linear stability of Couette flow for 2D compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson system at high Reynolds number in the domain $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$ with initial perturbation in Sobolev spaces. We establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Yurui Lu , Xueke Pu
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