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We establish the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations to the Euler equations for three-dimensional compressible isentropic flow in the whole space. It is shown that there exists a unique regular solution of compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Yongcai Geng , Yachun Li , Shengguo Zhu

The aim of these notes is to present in a comprehensive and relatively self-contained way some recent developments in the mathematical analysis of two-dimensional viscous flows. We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Thierry Gallay

This paper concerns with the stability of the plane Couette flow resulted from the motions of boundaries that the top boundary $\Sigma_1$ and the bottom one $\Sigma_0$ move with constant velocities $(a,0)$ and $(b,0)$, respectively. If one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin

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 establish the nonlinear stability threshold $O(\nu^{3/2})$ for the three-dimensional Couette flow governed by the compressible Navier--Stokes equations. While stability thresholds are well understood in two dimensions for both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Rui Li , Fei Wang , Lingda Xu , Zeren Zhang

In this paper, we improve the size requirement of the perturbations for the asymptotic stability of the Couette flow in stratified fluids governed by the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq system. More precisely, the size of perturbed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Binqian Niu , Weiren Zhao

We consider a test problem for Navier-Stokes solvers based on the flow around a cylinder that exhibits chaotic behavior, to examine the behavior of various numerical methods. We choose a range of Reynolds numbers for which the flow is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Henry von Wahl , L. Ridgway Scott

The rate of energy dissipation in solutions of the body-forced 3-d incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is rigorously estimated with a focus on its dependence on the nature of the driving force. For square integrable body forces the high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexey Cheskidov , Charles R. Doering , Nikola P. Petrov

We present a new application of Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT): the stability analysis of fluid flows. As a test case that demonstrates the framework we focus on the plane Couette flow. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equation is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-01 Sharvari Nadkarni-Ghosh , Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee

In this paper, we investigate the quantitative stability for the 2D Couette flow on the infinite channel $\mathbb{R}\times [-1,1]$ with non-slip boundary condition. Compared to the case $\mathbb{T}\times [-1,1]$, we establish the stability…

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

In this paper, we study the nonlinear stability of a steady circular flow created between two rotating concentric cylinders. The dynamics of the viscous fluid are described by 2D Navier-Stokes equations. We adopt scaling variables. For the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Xinliang An , Taoran He , Te Li

We study the high Reynolds number limit of a viscous fluid in the presence of a rough boundary. We consider the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier slip boundary condition, in a domain whose boundaries exhibit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-23 David Gérard-Varet , Christophe Lacave , Toan T. Nguyen , Frédéric Rousset

The large deformations and break up of circular 2D liquid patches in a high Reynolds number (Re=1000) gas flow are investigated numerically. The 2D, plane flow Navier--Stokes equations are directly solved with explicit tracking of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Zaleski , Jie Li , S. Succi

An initial-value problem for arbitrary small 3D vorticity perturbations imposed on a free shear flow is considered. The viscous perturbation equations are then combined in terms of the vorticity and velocity, and are solved by means of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Scarsoglio , D. Tordella , W. O. Criminale

In this paper, we study the nonlinear asymptotic stability of the Couette flow in the stably stratified regime, namely the Richardson number $\gamma^2>\frac{1}{4}$. Precisely, we prove that if the initial perturbation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Cuili Zhai , Weiren Zhao

In this article we consider the 2D Navier-Stokes equations with variable viscosity depending on the vertical position. As our main result we establish linear enhanced dissipation near the non-affine stationary states replacing Couette flow.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Xian Liao , Christian Zillinger

We introduce a modified version of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation, preserving energy and momentum of inertia, which is motivated by the occurrence of different dissipation time scales and related to the gradient flow structure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Caglioti , M. Pulvirenti , F. Rousset

A new fourth order compact formulation for the steady 2-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is presented. The formulation is in the same form of the Navier-Stokes equations such that any numerical method that solve the Navier-Stokes…

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

We prove the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the steady isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with inflow boundary conditions for density and mixed boundary conditions for the velocity around a shear flow. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Wen-Gang Yang

We give a novel vorticity formulation for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Via a resolvent argument, we obtain Green's function and establish an upper bound, which is the 3D analog of [24]. Moreover, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Igor Kukavica , Fei Wang , Yichun Zhu