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A method to bound the maximum energy perturbation for which regional stability of transitional fluid flow models can be guaranteed is introduced. The proposed method exploits the fact that the fluid model's nonlinearities are both lossless…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-19 Leonardo F. Toso , Ross Drummond , Stephen R. Duncan

This paper provides a pedagogical introduction to the classical nonlinear stability analysis of the plane Poiseuille and Couette flows. The whole procedure is kept as simple as possible by presenting all the logical steps involved in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-09 Antonio Barletta , Giuseppe Mulone

The dynamical analysis of shear flows remains challenging, as turbulence generation and evolution are not fully understood. Here, a lesser-explored feature of incompressible shear flows-the absorbing zone-is investigated. This region in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-25 Péter Tamás Nagy

We investigate here linear stability in a canonical three-dimensional boundary layer generated by the superposition of a spanwise pressure gradient upon an otherwise standard channel flow. As the main result, we introduce a simple…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-28 Muhammad Abdullah

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

We show possibility of the Plane Couette (PC) flow instability for Reynolds number Re>Reth=140. This new result of the linear hydrodynamic stability theory is obtained on the base of refusal from the traditionally used assumption on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-20 Sergey G. Chefranov , Alexander G. Chefranov

We investigate the linear instability of flows that are stable according to Rayleigh's criterion for rotating fluids. Using Taylor-Couette flow as a primary test case, we develop large Reynolds number matched asymptotic expansion theories.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Kengo Deguchi , Ming Dong

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 consider barotropic instability of shear flows for incompressible fluids with Coriolis effects. For a class of shear flows, we develop a new method to find the sharp stability conditions. We study the flow with Sinus profile in details…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Zhiwu Lin , Jincheng Yang , Hao Zhu

A new universal theory for flow instability and turbulent transition is proposed in this study. Flow instability and turbulence transition have been challenging subjects for fluid dynamics for a century. The critical condition of turbulent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 Hua-Shu Dou

We prove nonlinear stability for finite amplitude perturbations of plane Couette flow. A bound of the solution of the resolvent equation in the unstable complex half-plane is used to estimate the solution of the full nonlinear problem.The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mattias Liefvendahl , Gunilla Kreiss

The transition mechanism from laminar flow to turbulent flow is a central problem in hydrodynamic stability theory. To shed light on this transition mechanism, Trefethen et al.({\it \small Science 1993}) proposed the transition threshold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Minling Li , Changzhen Sun , Chao Wang , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

The stability of density-stratified viscous Taylor-Couette flows is considered using the Boussinesq approximation but without any use of the short-wave approximation. The flows which are unstable after the Rayleigh criterion (\hat \mu<\hat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Shalybkov , G. Ruediger

This article explores the stability of stratified Couette flow in the viscous $3d$ Boussinesq equations. In this system, mixing effects arise from the shearing background, and gravity acts as a restoring force leading to dispersive internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Michele Coti Zelati , Augusto Del Zotto , Klaus Widmayer

This paper addresses the stability of plane Couette flow in the presence of strong density and viscosity stratifications. It demonstrates the existence of a generalised inflection point that satisfies the generalised Fjortoft's criterion of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-13 B. Bugeat , P. C. Boldini , A. M. Hasan , R. Pecnik

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

This work addresses the question of the stability of stratified, spatially periodic shear flows at low P\'eclet number but high Reynolds number. This little-studied limit is motivated by astrophysical systems, where the Prandtl number is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-02 Pascale Garaud , Basile Gallet , Tobias Bischoff

The well-known paradox of linear stability for the some bounded shear flows is not solved up to now and is bypassed on the basis of the non-linear mechanisms consideration. We prove that it is arising only due to an idealized assumption of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-04 Sergey G. Chefranov , Alexander G. Chefranov

This paper examines the linearized stability of plane Couette flow for stress-power law fluids, which exhibit non-monotonic stress-strain rate behavior. The constitutive model is derived from a thermodynamic framework using a non-convex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 Krishna Kaushik Yanamundra , Lorenzo Fusi

In this paper, we study nonlinear stability of the 3D plane Couette flow $(y,0,0)$ at high Reynolds number ${Re}$ in a finite channel $\mathbb{T}\times [-1,1]\times \mathbb{T}$. It is well known that the plane Couette flow is linearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Qi Chen , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang