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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ryan Arbon

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic stability threshold problem for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations in a finite channel with no-slip boundary conditions, around monotone shear flow $(U(t,y),0)$. We establish that the flow is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Zhen Li , Shunlin Shen , Zhifei Zhang

A necessary and sufficient condition for linear stability of inviscid parallel shear flow is formulated by a novel variational method, where the velocity profile is assumed to be monotonic and analytic. Unstable eigenvalues of the Rayleigh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-03 Makoto Hirota , Philip J. Morrison , Yuji Hattori

In this paper we consider the inviscid 2D Boussinesq equation on the Sobolev spaces $H^s(\R^2)$, $s > 2$. Using a geometric approach we show that for any $T > 0$ the corresponding solution map, $(u(0),\theta(0)) \mapsto (u(T),\theta(T))$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Hasan Inci

This short note provides explicit solutions to the linearized Boussinesq equations around the stably stratified Couette flow posed on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$. We consider the long-time behavior of such solutions and prove inviscid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Michele Coti Zelati , Marc Nualart

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

The linear stability of three-dimensional (3D) vortices in rotating, stratified flows has been studied by analyzing the non-hydrostatic inviscid Boussinesq equations. We have focused on a widely-used model of geophysical and astrophysical…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Mani Mahdinia , Pedram Hassanzadeh , Philip S. Marcus , Chung-Hsiang Jiang

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of the solutions to the two-dimensional incompressible free Navier Stokes equation (without forcing) with small viscosity $\nu$, when the initial data is close to stable monotone shear flows.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Hui Li , Weiren Zhao

We consider the stability of a system of equations which are a singular perturbation of the incompressible rigid-plastic flow equations used to model granular flow. A linear stability analysis shows that solutions of these equations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Shaun Hendy

We investigate the linear stability of shears near the Couette flow for a class of 2D incompressible stably stratified fluids. Our main result consists of nearly optimal decay rates for perturbations of stationary states whose velocities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Roberta Bianchini , Michele Coti Zelati , Michele Dolce

In this paper, we consider the advective unstable Cahn-Hilliard equation in 2D with shear flow: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t+Av_1(y) \partial_x u+\varepsilon \Delta^2 u= \Delta(a u^3+ b u^2) \quad & \quad \textrm{on} \quad \mathbb…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Bingyang Hu , Dinghua Xu , Yeyu Zhang

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

This article explores the stability of stratified Couette flow in the viscous $3d$ Boussinesq equations. In this system, mixing effects arise from the shearing background, and gravity acts as a restoring force leading to dispersive internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Michele Coti Zelati , Augusto Del Zotto , Klaus Widmayer

We prove the asymptotic stability of shear flows close to the Couette flow for the 2-D inhomogeneous incompressible Euler equations on $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. More precisely, if the initial velocity is close to the Couette flow and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Qi Chen , Dongyi Wei , Ping Zhang , Zhifei Zhang

In this paper, we study the asymptotic stability for the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes Boussinesq system around the Couette flow with small viscosity $\nu$ and small thermal diffusion $\mu$ in a finite channel. In particular, we prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Nader Masmoudi , Cuili Zhai , Weiren Zhao

We study the stability of spectrally stable, strictly monotone, smooth shear flows in the 2D Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$ with small viscosity $\nu$. We establish nonlinear stability in $H^s$ for $s \geq 2$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Rajendra Beekie , Siming He

In this expository note we discuss our recent work [arXiv:1306.5028] on the nonlinear asymptotic stability of shear flows in the 2D Euler equations of ideal, incompressible flow. In that work it is proved that perturbations to the Couette…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Jacob Bedrossian , Nader Masmoudi

We consider arbitrary, possibly turbulent, Boussinesq flow which is smooth below a dissipative scale $l_d$. It is demonstrated that the stability of the flow with respect to growth of fluctuations with scale smaller than $l_d$ leads to a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Itzhak Fouxon , Alexander Leshansky

We are concerned with the linear stability of the Couette flow for the non-isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with vanished shear viscosity in a domain $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. For a general initial data settled in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Xiaoping Zhai

We consider the Rayleigh-Taylor problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid, barotropic fluids evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. After constructing Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solutions…

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