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Incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the spherical coordinates are solved using a pseudo-spectral method to simulate the problem of spherical Couette flow. The flow is investigated for a narrow gap ratio with only the inner sphere…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-10 Ananthu J. P. , Manjul Sharma , Sameen A. , Vinod Narayanan

The decay of turbulent and laminar oblique bands in the lower transitional range of plane Couette flow is studied by means of direct numerical simulations of the Navier--Stokes equations. We consider systems that are extended enough for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Manneville

We study the stability of coherent structures in plane Couette flow against long-wavelength perturbations in wide domains that cover several pairs of coherent structures. For one and two pairs of vortices, the states retain the stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-10 Konstantin Melnikov , Tobias Kreilos , Bruno Eckhardt

We prove the existence and stability of smooth solutions to the steady Navier-Stokes equations near plane Poiseuille-Couette flow. Consequently, we also provide the zero viscosity limit of the 2D steady Navier-Stokes equations to the steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Song Jiang , Chunhui Zhou

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

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

This paper concerns with the stability of the plane Couette flow resulted from the motions of boundaries that the top boundary $\Sigma_1$ and the bottom one $\Sigma_0$ move with constant velocities $(a,0)$ and $(b,0)$, respectively. If one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin

We present an equilibrium solution of plane Couette flow that is exponentially localized in both the spanwise and streamwise directions. The solution is similar in size and structure to previously computed turbulent spots and localized,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Evan Brand , John F. Gibson

We delineate the structure of steady laminar flows within a stably stratified, valley-shaped triangular cavity heated from below through linear stability analysis and Navier-Stokes simulations. We derive an exact solution to the quiescent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-21 Patrick J. Stofanak , Cheng-Nian Xiao , Inanc Senocak

This paper investigates the stability of interfacial long waves in two-layer plane Couette flow using a nonlinear, nonlocal asymptotic model derived from the Navier-Stokes equations and valid for thin upper layers. Nonlocality enters…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-17 Xingyu Wang , Pierre Germain , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

A simple analytical solution for turbulent plane Couette flow is obtained from a subset of the Navier-Stokes equations. This approach analyses the effect of the unsteady state Lagrangian diffusion of viscous momentum on the smoothed phase…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-25 Khanh Tuoc Trinh

Motivated by recent experimental and numerical studies of coherent structures in wall-bounded shear flows, we initiate a systematic exploration of the hierarchy of unstable invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. We construct a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 John F. Gibson , Jonathan Halcrow , Predrag Cvitanović

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

Steady states and traveling waves play a fundamental role in understanding hydrodynamic problems. Even when unstable, these states provide the bifurcation-theoretic explanation for the origin of the observed states. In turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-08 Laurette S. Tuckerman , Jacob Langham , Ashley Willis

We consider a 9-PDE (1-space and 1-time) model of plane Couette flow in which the degrees of freedom are severely restricted in the streamwise and cross-stream directions to study spanwise localisation in detail. Of the many steady Eckhaus…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-16 Matthew Chantry , Rich R Kerswell

A model of fully developed turbulence of a compressible fluid is briefly reviewed. It is assumed that fluid dynamics is governed by a stochastic version of Navier-Stokes equation. We show how corresponding field theoretic-model can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-09 M. Hnatič , N. M. Gulitskiy , T. Lučivjanský , L. Mižišin , V. Škultéty

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of Couette flow on the half plane with Navier-slip boundary conditions. We prove that the total vorticity will…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Ning Liu , Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

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

Wide channel Couette (WCC) turbulence is striking in being dominated by a large-scale spanwise periodic structure composed of streamwise streaks and associated roll superstructures. This apparent equilibrium is shown in this work to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Brian F. Farrell , Petros J. Ioannou

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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