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Liouville-type theorems for the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes system are investigated for solutions in a three-dimensional slab with either no-slip boundary conditions or periodic boundary conditions. When the no-slip boundary…
We present some new discoveries on the mathematical foundation of linear hydrodynamic stability theory. The new discoveries are: 1. Linearized Euler equations fail to provide a linear approximation on inviscid hydrodynamic stability. 2.…
In this paper, we investigate the vanishing viscosity limit for solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations with a Navier slip boundary condition on general compact and smooth domains in $\mathbf{R}^3$. We first obtain the higher order…
The main goal of this paper is to obtain sufficient conditions that allow us to rigorously derive local versions of the 4/5 and 4/3 laws of hydrodynamic turbulence, by which we mean versions of these laws that hold in bounded domains. This…
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…
We consider the two-dimensional incompressible inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations with odd viscosity, where the shear and the odd viscosity coefficients depend continuously on the unknown density function. We establish the existence of…
We analyze the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids with the {\lq\lq}viscous stress tensor{\rq\rq} $\mathbb{S}$ in a family which includes the Bingham model for viscoplastic fluids (more generally, the Herschel-Bulkley model).…
It has been demonstrated that the Euler equations of inviscid fluid are incomplete: according to the principle of release of constraints, absence of shear stresses must be compensated by additional degrees of freedom, and leads to…
In this paper, we consider an incompressible viscous fluid in an infinitely deep ocean, being bounded above by a free moving boundary. The governing equations are the gravity-driven incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with variable…
Incompressible Euler flows in narrow domains, in which the horizontal length scale is much larger than other scales, play an important role in applications, and their leading-order behavior can be described by the hydrostatic Euler…
We report on progress on the free surface flow in the presence of submerged oscillating line sources (2D) or point sources (3D) when a simple shear flow is present varying linearly with depth. Such sources are in routine use as Green…
Using fluid/gravity correspondence, we determine the (linearized) stress energy tensor of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling with all orders in derivatives of fluid velocity included. We find that the dissipative…
Edges are abundant when elastic solids glide in guiding rails or fluids are contained in vessels. We here address induced displacements in elastic solids or small-scale flows in viscous fluids in the vicinity of one such edge. For this…
We prove that if the local second-order structure function exponents in the inertial range remain positive uniformly in viscosity, then any spacetime $L^2$ weak limit of Leray--Hopf weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations on any…
In this paper we show how the stability of Prandtl boundary layers is linked to the stability of shear flows in the incompressible Navier Stokes equations. We then recall classical physical instability results, and give a short educational…
In this note we establish a density result for certain stationary shear flows, $\mu(y)$, that vanish at the boundaries of a horizontal channel. We construct stationary solutions to 2D Navier-Stokes that are $\epsilon$-close in $L^\infty$ to…
This paper studies the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations governing stratified flows in a bounded domain under a gravitational potential \(f\). Our main results are as follows. First, we provide a rigorous…
The present paper is concerned with an inviscid limit problem of radially symmetric stationary solutions for an exterior problem in $\mathbb{R}^n (n\ge 2)$ to compressible Navier-Stokes equation, describing the motion of viscous barotropic…
We consider the equations of Navier-Stokes modeling viscous fluid flow past a moving or rotating obstacle in $\mathbb{R}^d$ subject to a prescribed velocity condition at infinity. In contrast to previously known results, where the…
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…