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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

We prove a stability threshold theorem for 2D Navier-Stokes on three unbounded domains: the whole plane $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}$, the half plane $\mathbb{R} \times [0,\infty)$ with Navier boundary conditions, and the infinite channel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ryan Arbon , Jacob Bedrossian

We study the nonlinear stability of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations around the Couette shear flow in the channel domain $\mathbb{R}\times[-1,1]$ subject to Navier slip boundary conditions. We establish a quantitative stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Tao Liang , Jiahong Wu , Xiaoping Zhai

We consider the 2D, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations near the Couette flow, $\omega^{(NS)} = 1 + \epsilon \omega$, set on the channel $\mathbb{T} \times [-1, 1]$, supplemented with Navier boundary conditions on the perturbation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Jacob Bedrossian , Siming He , Sameer Iyer , Fei Wang

We consider the 2D Navier-Stokes equation on $\mathbb T \times \mathbb R$, with initial datum that is $\varepsilon$-close in $H^N$ to a shear flow $(U(y),0)$, where $\| U(y) - y\|_{H^{N+4}} \ll 1$ and $N>1$. We prove that if $\varepsilon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Jacob Bedrossian , Vlad Vicol , Fei Wang

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 paper, we investigate the stability threshold problem of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes Boussinesq(NSB) equations in a finite channel $ \T \times [-1,1]$, focusing on the stability around the near Couette shear flow $ (U(y), 0)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Tao Liang , Yongsheng Li , Xiaoping Zhai

We investigate the stability of the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations in the infinite channel $\mathbb{R}\times [-1,1]$ with the Navier-slip boundary condition. We show that if the initial perturbations $\omega^{in}$ around the Couette flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Qionglei Chen , Zhen Li , Changxing Miao

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

We study the stability threshold of the 2D Couette flow in Sobolev spaces at high Reynolds number $Re$. We prove that if the initial vorticity $\Omega_{in}$ satisfies $\|\Omega_{in}-(-1)\|_{H^{\sigma}}\leq \epsilon Re^{-1/3}$, then the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

We study the Sobolev stability thresholds of 2d dissipative fluid equations around Couette flow on the domain $\mathbb T\times \mathbb R$. We prove a bound for general nonlinear interactions, which, for several fluid equations, reduces the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Niklas Knobel

In this paper, we consider the stability threshold of the 2D shear flow $(U(y),0)^{\top}$ of the Navier-Stokes equation at high Reynolds number $Re$. When the shear flow is near in Sobolev norm to the Couette flow $(y,0)^{\top}$ in some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Dongfen Bian , Xueke Pu

We study Sobolev regularity disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. Our goal is to estimate how the stability threshold scales in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Jacob Bedrossian , Pierre Germain , Nader Masmoudi

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

In this paper, we obtain the optimal instability threshold of the Couette flow for Navier-Stokes equations with small viscosity $\nu>0$, when the perturbations are in the critical spaces $H^1_xL_y^2$. More precisely, we introduce a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Hui Li , Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao

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

In this paper, we study the transition threshold problem for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations around the Couette flow $(y,0)$ at large Reynolds number $Re$ in a finite channel. We develop a systematic method to establish the resolvent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Qi Chen , Te Li , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

In this work we study the long time, inviscid limit of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations near the periodic Couette flow, and in particular, we confirm at the nonlinear level the qualitative behavior predicted by Kelvin's 1887 linear analysis.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Jacob Bedrossian , Nader Masmoudi , Vlad Vicol

Rotation significantly influences the stability characteristics of both laminar and turbulent shear flows. This study examines the stability threshold of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with rotation, in the vicinity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Wenting Huang , Ying Sun , Xiaojing Xu

This paper concerns the Couette flow for 2-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations (N-S) in an infinitely long flat torus $\Torus\times\R$. Compared to the incompressible flow, the compressible Couette flow has a stronger lift-up effect and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Feimin Huang , Rui Li , Lingda Xu
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