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This paper concerns spectral instability of shear flows in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with sufficiently large Reynolds number: $R\to \infty$. It is well-documented in the physical literature, going back to Heisenberg, C.C.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Emmanuel Grenier , Yan Guo , Toan Nguyen

This paper establishes the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow for the 2D Boussinesq equations with only vertical dissipation. The Boussinesq equations concerned here model buoyancy-driven fluids such as atmospheric and oceanographic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Wen Deng , Jiahong Wu , Ping Zhang

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

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

In this paper, we study the transition threshold problem for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations around the Poiseuille flow $(1-y^2,0)$ in a finite channel with Navier-slip boundary condition. Based on the resolvent estimates for the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Shijin Ding , Zhilin Lin

This paper concerns the instability and stability of the trivial steady states of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier-slip boundary conditions in a slab domain in dimension two. The main results show that the stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Shijin Ding , Quanrong Li , Zhouping Xin

We consider solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbb{R}^2$ close to the Poiseuille flow with viscosity $0< \nu < 1$. For the linearized problem, we prove that when the $x$-frequency satisfy $|k| \ge \nu^{-\frac{1}{3}}$, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Zhile Li

Neither natural nor laboratory laminar flows are perfectly steady. Instead, they are frequently highly unsteady, as illustrated by experimental studies on B\'{e}nard convection. In the paper, we investigate the transition threshold of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Qionglei Chen , Zhen Li

We study the stability properties of boundary layer-type shear flows for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the limit of small viscosity $0<\nu\ll 1$. When the streamwise and spanwise velocity profiles are linearly independent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Cheng-Jie Liu , Mengjun Ma , Di Wu , Zhu Zhang

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

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 paper, we study the asymptotic stability for the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes Boussinesq system around the Couette flow with small viscosity $\nu$ and small thermal diffusion $\mu$ in a finite channel. In particular, we prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Nader Masmoudi , Cuili Zhai , Weiren Zhao

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 paper, we investigate the incompressible steady Navier-Stokes system with no-slip boundary condition in a two-dimensional channel. Given any flux, the existence of solutions is proved as long as the width of cross-section of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Han Li , Kaijian Sha

We investigate the global in time stability of regular solutions with large velocity vectors to the evolutionary Navier-Stokes equation in ${\bf R}^3$. The class of stable flows contains all two dimensional weak solutions. The only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Piotr B. Mucha

We study the stability of the Kolmogorov flows which are stationary solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of the shear external force. We establish the linear stability estimate when the viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Slim Ibrahim , Yasunori Maekawa , Nader Masmoudi

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

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

We are concerned with the vortex sheet solutions for the inviscid two-phase flow in two dimensions. In particular, the nonlinear stability and existence of compressible vortex sheet solutions under small perturbations are established by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang , Difan Yuan

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of Couette flow on the half plane with Navier-slip boundary conditions. We prove that the total vorticity will…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Ning Liu , Nader Masmoudi , Weiren Zhao