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In this paper, we establish the vanishing viscosity limit result of the 2D stationary Navier-Stokes equations outside a rotating disc. On the boundary of the disc, the fluid is subjected to a small perturbation of a non zero rotation of…
The 2D Euler system, which governs inviscid incompressible fluid flow, can admit infinitely many steady solutions in a given domain with slip boundary conditions. To select physical classical solutions, we investigate the vanishing…
This paper investigates the asymptotic stability of rarefaction waves for a one-dimensional compressible fluid system, where the Newton's law of viscosity and Fourier's law of heat conduction are replaced by Maxwell's law and Cattaneo's…
In this article we consider a damped version of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the whole three-dimensional space with a divergence-free and time-independent external force. Within the framework of a well-prepared force and…
Despite the nonlinear nature of wall turbulence, there is evidence that the energy-injection mechanisms sustaining wall turbulence can be ascribed to linear processes. The different scenarios stem from linear stability theory and comprise…
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…
We address the problem in Navier-Stokes isotropic turbulence of why the vorticity accumulates on thin sets such as quasi-one-dimensional tubes and quasi-two-dimensional sheets. Taking our motivation from the work of Ashurst, Kerstein, Kerr…
We establish the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations to the isentropic Euler equations for one-dimensional compressible fluid flow. For the Navier-Stokes equations, there exist no natural invariant regions for the…
Singularity of Navier-Stokes equations is uncovered for the first time which explains the mechanism of transition of a smooth laminar flow to turbulence. It is found that when an inflection point is formed on the velocity profile in…
The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are considered. We find that there exist infinite non-trivial solutions of static Euler equations. Moreover there exist random solutions of static Euler equations. Provided Reynolds number is large…
The Navier-Stokes equation describes the deterministic evolution of incompressible fluids. The effects of random initial conditions on solutions of this equation are studied. It is shown that there is an infrared stable fixed point…
The steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a multiply-connected, planar, bounded domain (perforated with a large number of small holes) is modeled through the Navier-Stokes equations with non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary data…
In this study, new turbulence closure equations are derived in the light of turbulence as a continuous phase transition phenomenon. Closed-form Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations due to those closure equations are solved numerically…
We propose a theoretical framework where the dissipative structures of turbulence emerge from microscopic path uncertainty. By modeling fluid parcels as stochastic tracers governed by the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) variational principle, we…
It has been recently demonstrated, [3], that according to the principle of release of constraints, absence of shear stresses in the Euler equations must be compensated by additional degrees of freedom, and that led to a Reynolds-type…
The steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in distorted pipes, of finite length, is modeled through the Navier-Stokes equations with mixed boundary conditions: the inflow is given by an arbitrary member of the Lions-Magenes class…
We establish local balance equations for smooth functions of the vorticity in the DiPerna-Majda weak solutions of 2D incompressible Euler, analogous to the balance proved by Duchon and Robert for kinetic energy in 3D. The anomalous term or…
We deal with the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, in two and three dimensions, when some vortex patches are prescribed as initial data i.e. when there is an internal boundary across which the vorticity is discontinuous. We show…
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