Related papers: On variable viscosity and enhanced dissipation
We consider the question of existence of weak solutions for the fully inhomogeneous, stationary generalized Navier-Stokes equations for homogeneous, shear-thinning fluids. For a shear rate exponent $p \in \big(\tfrac{2d}{d+1}, 2\big)$,…
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…
In this article we consider weak solutions of the three-dimensional incompressible fluid flow equations with initial data admitting a one-dimensional symmetry group. We examine both the viscous and inviscid cases. For the case of viscous…
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…
This paper explores the phenomena of enhanced dissipation and Taylor dispersion in solutions to the passive scalar equations subject to time-dependent shear flows. The hypocoercivity functionals with carefully tuned time weights are applied…
In this article we study the local stabilization of the non-homogeneous Navier- Stokes equations in a 2d channel around Poiseuille flow. We design a feedback control of the velocity which acts on the inflow boundary of the domain such that…
We derive a novel thermodynamically consistent Navier--Stokes--Cahn--Hilliard system with dynamic boundary conditions. This model describes the motion of viscous incompressible binary fluids with different densities. In contrast to previous…
In this paper, we study the metastability for the 2-D linearized dissipative quasi-geostrophic equation with small viscosity $\nu$ around the quasi steady state $\theta_{sin}=e^{-\nu t}\sin y$. We proved the linear enhanced dissipation and…
The subject of this work is the instability mechanism of simple shear flows, like Hagen-Poiseuille pipe flow, which is a long-standing problem in fluid mechanics [1,2]. A possible analogy with phenomenological theory of ideal plasticity in…
Suspension of particles in a fluid solvent are ubiquitous in nature, for example, water mixed with sugar or bacteria self-propelling through mucus. Particles create local flow perturbations that can modify drastically the effective…
The aim of this contribution is to make a connection between two recent results concerning the dynamics of vortices in incompressible planar flows. The first one is an asymptotic expansion, in the vanishing viscosity limit, of the solution…
We show the existence of (a class of) weak solutions to the three-dimensional stationary incompressible inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity coefficient in the axially symmetric case. Further symmetric…
We study the dynamics of the two dimensional Navier Stokes equations linearized around a strictly monotonic shear flow on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$. The main task is to understand the associated Rayleigh and Orr-Sommerfeld equations,…
We study the 2D Navier--Stokes solution starting from an initial vorticity mildly concentrated near $N$ distinct points in the plane. We prove quantitative estimates on the propagation of concentration near a system of interacting point…
We show existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to a Navier-Stokes/Cahn-Hilliard type system on a given two-dimensional evolving surface in the case of different densities and a singular (logarithmic) potential. The system describes a…
The equations of stationary compressible flows of active liquid crystals are considered in a bounded three-dimensional domain. The system consists of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the equation of Q-tensors and the…
It is shown how to model weakly dissipative free-surface flows using the classical potential flow approach. The Helmholtz-Leray decomposition is applied to the linearized 3D Navier-Stokes equations. The governing equations are treated using…
We consider the compressible Navier-Stokes equation with density dependent viscosity coefficients, focusing on the case where those coefficients vanish on vacuum. We prove the stability of weak solutions both in the torus and in the whole…
In this paper, the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional (3-D) isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations is considered. When viscosity coefficients are given as a constant multiple of the density's power ($\rho^\delta$ with…
We study the Navier-Stokes equations governing the motion of isentropic compressible fluid in three dimensions driven by a multiplicative stochastic forcing. In particular, we consider a stochastic perturbation of the system as a function…