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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

Building on work of Barker, Humpherys, Lafitte, Rudd, and Zumbrun in the shock wave case, we study stability of compressive, or "shock-like", boundary layers of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with gamma-law pressure by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Nicola Costanzino , Jeffrey Humpherys , Toan Nguyen , Kevin Zumbrun

We study the stability properties of boundary layer-type shear flows for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the limit of small viscosity $0<\nu\ll 1$. When the streamwise and spanwise velocity profiles are linearly independent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Cheng-Jie Liu , Mengjun Ma , Di Wu , Zhu Zhang

For steady two-dimensional Navier-Stokes flows with a single eddy (i.e. nested closed streamlines) in a simply connected domain, Prandtl (1905) and Batchelor (1956) found that in the inviscid limit, the vorticity is constant inside the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Mingwen Fei , Chen Gao , Zhiwu Lin , Tao Tao

We investigate in this paper the global stability of the compressible viscous surface waves in the absence of surface tension effect with a steady-state violating Rayleigh-Taylor instability and the reference domain being the horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Guilong Gui , Zhifei Zhang

This work presents an asymptotic stability result concerning the self-similar Blasius profiles $[\bar{u}, \bar{v}]$ of the stationary Prandtl boundary layer equation. Initially demonstrated by Serrin \cite{MR0282585}, the profiles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Hao Jia , Zhen Lei , Cheng Yuan

This paper presents the linear global stability analysis of the incompressible axisymmetric boundary layer on a circular cylinder. The base flow is parallel to the axis of the cylinder at inlet. The pressure gradient is zero in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-16 N. Vinod , Ramesh Bhoraniya

In this paper, we establish the inviscid damping and enhanced dissipation estimates for the linearized Navier-Stokes system around the symmetric flow in a finite channel with the non-slip boundary condition. As an immediate consequence, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Qi Chen , Hao Li , Shunlin Shen , Zhifei Zhang

We investigate the global stability of large solutions to the compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations in a three-dimensional (3D) bounded domain with Navier-slip boundary conditions. It is shown that the strong solutions converge to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Yang Liu , Guochun Wu , Xin Zhong

In this paper, we prove the stability of shear flows of Prandtl type as $ \big(U(y/\sqrt{\nu}),0\big)$ for the steady Navier-Stokes equations under a natural spectral assumption on the linearized NS operator. We develop a direct energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Qi Chen , Di Wu , Zhifei Zhang

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

In this paper, we establish the mathematical validity of the Prandtl boundary layer theory for a class of nonlinear plane parallel flows of viscous incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow with no-slip boundary condition of velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin , Dongjuan Niu

In this paper, we investigate the incompressible steady Navier-Stokes system with Navier slip boundary condition in a two-dimensional channel. As long as the width of cross-section of the channel grows more slowly than the linear growth,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Kaijian Sha , Yun Wang , Chunjing Xie

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 weak boundary layer phenomenon of the Navier-Stokes equations in a 3D bounded domain with viscosity, $\epsilon > 0$, under generalized Navier friction boundary conditions, in which we allow the friction coefficient to be a (1,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-11 Gung-Min Gie , James P. Kelliher

In 1904, Prandtl introduced his famous boundary layer in order to describe the behavior of solutions of Navier Stokes equations near a boundary as the viscosity goes to $0$. His Ansatz has later been justified for analytic data by R.E.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Emmanuel Grenier , Toan T. Nguyen

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

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

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

This paper is concerned with the vanishing viscosity and magnetic resistivity limit for the two-dimensional steady incompressible MHD system on the half plane with no-slip boundary condition on velocity field and perfectly conducting wall…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Cheng-Jie Liu , Tong Yang , Zhu Zhang