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In order to understand whether, and to what extent, spectral representation can effectively highlight the nonlinear interaction among different scales, it is necessary to consider the state that precedes the onset of instabilities and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-07 Stefania Scarsoglio , Daniela Tordella

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

The linear stability analysis of an uniform shear flow of granular materials is revisited using several cases of a Navier-Stokes'-level constitutive model in which we incorporate the global equation of states for pressure and thermal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-18 Meheboob Alam , Priyanka Shukla , Stefan Luding

We study linear stability of solutions to the Navier\textendash Stokes equations with stochastic viscosity. Specifically, we assume that the viscosity is given in the form of a~stochastic expansion. Stability analysis requires a solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Bedřich Sousedík , Howard C. Elman , Kookjin Lee , Randy Price

In 1959, Kolmogorov proposed to study the instability of the shear flow $(\sin(y),0)$ in the vanishing viscosity regime in tori $\mathbb{T}_{\alpha}\times \mathbb{T}$. This question was later resolved by Meshalkin and Sinai. We extend the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Maria Colombo , Michele Dolce , Riccardo Montalto , Paolo Ventura

The linear stability of stratified two-phase flows in rectangular ducts is studied numerically. The linear stability analysis takes into account all possible infinitesimal three-dimensional disturbances and is carried out by solution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-09 Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

We study the instability of a dusty simple shear flow where the dust particles are distributed non-uniformly. A simple shear flow is modally stable to infinitesimal perturbations. Also, a band of particles remains unaffected in the absence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-10 Anu V. S. Nath , Anubhab Roy , M. Houssem Kasbaoui

Hydrodynamics provides a universal description of the emergent collective dynamics of vastly different many-body systems, based solely on their symmetries and conservation laws. Here we harness this universality, encoded in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 P. I. Hurtado , J. J. del Pozo , P. L. Garrido

Hydrodynamic equations are used to identify the final state reached by a freely evolving granular gas above but close to its shear instability. The theory predicts the formation of a two bands shear state with a steady density profile.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero , A. Dominguez

We consider the stability of periodic gravity free-surface water waves traveling downstream at a constant speed over a shear flow of finite depth. In case the free surface is flat, a sharp criterion of linear instability is established for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhiwu Lin

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 show a case of steady flow in a granular gas that, for small shear rates, is accurately described by Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics, even for high inelasticity. The (low density) granular gas is composed of identical inelastic spheres and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-15 Francisco Vega Reyes

The hydrodynamic stability analysis of gravity-driven, soluble surfactant-laden fluid streaming down a slippery, slanted plane in the presence of external shear force is being explored in this article. The Navier-Stokes equations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Dipankar Paul , Harekrushna Behera , Sukhendu Ghosh

The aim of this paper is to give a detailed presentation of long wave instabilities of shear layers for Navier Stokes equations, and in particular to give a simple and easy to read presentation of the study of Orr Sommerfeld equation and to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Dongfen Bian , Emmanuel Grenier

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 perform a linear stability analysis of extended domains in phase-separating fluids of equal viscosity, in two dimensions. Using the coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Stokes equations, we derive analytically the stability eigenvalues for long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Amalie Frischknecht

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 construct growing modes of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations about generic stationary shear flows of the boundary layer type in a regime of sufficiently large Reynolds number: $R \to \infty$. Notably, the shear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Emmanuel Grenier , Yan Guo , Toan T. Nguyen

Recent studies suggest that unstable, non-chaotic solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation may provide deep insights into fluid turbulence. In this article, we present a combined experimental and numerical study exploring the dynamical role…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 Balachandra Suri , Jeffrey Tithof , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

We analyze the linear stability of monoclinal traveling waves on a constant incline, which connect uniform flowing regions of differing depths. The classical shallow-water equations are employed, subject to a general resistive drag term.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jake Langham , Andrew J. Hogg