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The nonlinear asymptotic stability of shear flows in the 2D Euler equations has traditionally been linked to inviscid damping in the periodic setting. Since Gevrey regularity is required to suppress the ``echo'' phenomenon, asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Dengjun Guo , Xiaoyutao Luo

In this paper, we study the stability threshold for the two-dimensional Couette flow in the whole plane. Our main result establishes that the asymptotic stability threshold is at most $\frac{1}{3}+$ for Sobolev perturbations with additional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Hui Li , Ning Liu , Weiren Zhao

We consider the quantitative asymptotic stability of the stably stratified Couette flow solution to the 2D fully dissipative nonlinear Boussinesq system on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with large Richardson number $R > 1/4$, viscosity $\nu$ and density…

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

We prove the instability of the Couette flow if the disturbances is less smooth than the Gevrey space of class 2. This shows that this is the critical regularity for this problem since it was proved in [5] that stability and inviscid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Yu Deng , Nader Masmoudi

In this paper, we prove the stability of Couette flow for 2D Navier-Stokes Boussinesq system without thermal diffusivity for the initial perturbation in Gevrey-$\frac{1}{s}$, ($1/3<s\leq 1$). The synergism of density mixing, vorticity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Nader Masmoudi , Belkacem Said-Houari , Weiren Zhao

In this paper, we study the stability two-dimensional (2D) steady Euler flows with sharply concentrated vorticity in a simply-connected bounded domain. These flows are obtained as maximizers of the kinetic energy subject to the constraint…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Guodong Wang

In this paper we prove the asymptotic stability of the Kolmogorov flow on a non-square torus for perturbations $\omega_0$ satisfying $\|\omega_0\|_{H^3}\ll\nu^{1/3}$, where $0<\nu\ll1$ is the viscosity. Kolmogorov flows are important…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Qi Chen , Hao Jia , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

In this paper, we study the stability threshold of the two-dimensional Boussinesq equations around the Couette flow in an infinite channel $\mathbb{R} \times [-1, 1]$ under no-slip boundary conditions. We prove that the Couette flow is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Tao Liang , Jiahong Wu , Xiaoping Zhai

This note is devoted to the linear stability of the Couette flow for the non-isentropic compressible Euler equations in a domain $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. Exploiting the several conservation laws originated from the special structure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Xiaoping Zhai

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Christian Zillinger

We study the asymptotic behavior and the asymptotic stability of the two-dimensional Euler equations and of the two-dimensional linearized Euler equations close to parallel flows. We focus on spectrally stable jet profiles $U(y)$ with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Freddy Bouchet , Hidetoshi Morita

In this paper, we investigate the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow for the two-dimensional compressible Navier--Stokes equations at high Reynolds numbers ($Re$) regime. It was proved that if the initial data $(\rho_{in},u_{in})$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Minling Li , Chao Wang , Zhifei Zhang

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 prove the stability threshold of $\alpha\leq \frac13$ for 2D Boussinesq equations around the Couette flow in $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$ with Richardson number $\gamma^2>\frac14$ and different viscosity $\nu$ and thermal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Xiaoxia Ren , Wei Dongyi

The linear marginal instability of an MHD Taylor-Couette flow of infinite vertical extension is considered. For hydrodynamically unstable flows the minimum Reynolds number exists even without a magnetic field, but there are also solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 G. Rüdiger

We prove nonlinear asymptotic stability of a large class of monotonic shear flows among solutions of the 2D Euler equations in the channel $\mathbb{T}\times[0,1]$. More precisely, we consider shear flows $(b(y),0)$ given by a function $b$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Alexandru D. Ionescu , Hao Jia

We analyze the nonlinear inertial instability of Couette flow under Coriolis forcing in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\). For the Coriolis coefficient \(f \in (0,1)\), we show that the non-normal operator associated with the linearized system admits only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Yanlong Fan , Daozhi Han , Quan Wang

Linear stability and the non-modal transient energy growth in compressible plane Couette flow are investigated for two prototype mean flows: (a) the {\it uniform shear} flow with constant viscosity, and (b) the {\it non-uniform shear} flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-04-02 M. Malik , J. Dey , Meheboob Alam

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

In this article, we study the stability and large time behavior for an multi-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamical system with a velocity damping term, for small perturbations near a steady-state of magnetic field fulfilling the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Hui Fang , Pingping Gui , Yanping Zhou