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This is the second in a pair of works which study small disturbances to the plane, periodic 3D Couette flow in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. In this work, we show that there is constant $0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Jacob Bedrossian , Pierre Germain , Nader Masmoudi

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

We consider the solution to the 2D Navier-Stokes equations around the Poiseuille flow $(y^2,0)$ on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$ with small viscosity $\nu>0$. Via a hypocoercivity argument, we prove that the $x-$dependent modes of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Augusto Del Zotto

In this note, we investigate the stability property of shear flows under the 2D stationary Navier-Stokes equations, and we obtain that the Couette flow $(y,0)$ is stable under the space of $\mathcal{D}^{1,q}(\mathbb{R}^2)$ for any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Wendong Wang

In this work, we prove a threshold theorem for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations posed on the periodic channel, $\mathbb{T} \times [-1,1]$, supplemented with Navier boundary conditions $\omega|_{y = \pm 1} = 0$. Initial datum is taken to be a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Jacob Bedrossian , Siming He , Sameer Iyer , Fei Wang

In this paper, we investigate the stability of the 2-dimensional (2D) Taylor-Couette (TC) flow for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The explicit form of velocity for 2D TC flow is given by $u=(Ar+\frac{B}{r})(-\sin \theta, \cos…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Xinliang An , Taoran He , Te Li

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

Numerical solvers of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations have reproduced turbulence phenomena such as the law of the wall, the dependence of turbulence intensities on the Reynolds number, and experimentally observed properties of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Divakar Viswanath , Ian Tobasco

Rotation is a crucial characteristic of fluid flow in the atmosphere and oceans, which is present in nearly all meteorological and geophysical models. The global existence of solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations with large rotation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Wenting Huang , Ying Sun , Xiaojing Xu

In this paper, we study the global existence and low Mach number limit of strong solutions to the 2-D full compressible Navier-Stokes equations around the plane Couette flow in a horizontally periodic layer with non-slip and isothermal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Tuowei Chen , Qiangchang Ju

We characterize the behavior of stochastic Navier-Stokes on $\mathbb{T} \times [-1,1]$ with Navier boundary conditions at high Reynolds number when initialized near Couette flow subject to small additive stochastic forcing. We take additive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Ryan Arbon , Jacob Bedrossian

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

We study the immersed boundary problem in 2-D. It models a 1-D elastic closed string immersed and moving in a fluid that fills the entire plane, where the fluid motion is governed by the 2-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equation with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Jiajun Tong , Dongyi Wei

Numerical calculations of the 2-D steady incompressible driven cavity flow are presented. The Navier-Stokes equations in streamfunction and vorticity formulation are solved numerically using a fine uniform grid mesh of 601x601. The steady…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 E. Erturk , T. C. Corke , C. Gokcol

In this note, which is of general stability theory interest, we discuss some of the key assertions usually stated in the context of the transition to turbulence problem. In particular, the two main points made here in the setting of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-01 R. Krechetnikov , J. E. Marsden

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 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

We prove that the Navier-Stokes equation is well-posed in function spaces on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 2$, that contain vector fields of order $O(|x|^\kappa)$ as $|x|\to\infty$ with $\kappa<1/2$. The corresponding solutions depend continuously…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-10 R. McOwen , P. Topalov

We prove the existence and stability of smooth solutions to the steady Navier-Stokes equations near plane Poiseuille-Couette flow. Consequently, we also provide the zero viscosity limit of the 2D steady Navier-Stokes equations to the steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Song Jiang , Chunhui Zhou

In this paper, we study the stability for 2-D plane Poiseuille flow $(1-y^2,0)$ in a channel $\mathbb{T}\times (-1,1)$ with Navier-slip boundary condition. We prove that if the initial perturbation for velocity field $u_0$ satisfies that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin