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In this paper, we show the incompressible and vanishing vertical viscosity limits for the strong solutions to the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes system with anistropic dissipation, in a domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Nader Masmoudi , Changzhen Sun , Chao Wang , Zhifei Zhang

In this article we consider a stationary $N$-dimensional Galerkin-Navier-Stokes type evolution with Brownian forcing and random stirring (of arbitrarily small strength). We show that the stationary diffusion in an open two-dimensional cone…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Alain-Sol Sznitman , Klaus Widmayer

We have found an infinite dimensional manifold of exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes loop equation for the Wilson loop in decaying Turbulence in arbitrary dimension $d >2$. This solution family is equivalent to a fractal curve in complex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-26 Alexander Migdal

Numerical and analytical studies of decaying, two-dimensional (2D) Navier-Stokes (NS) turbulence at high Reynolds numbers are reported. The effort is to determine computable distinctions between two different formulations of maximum entropy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Yin , D. C. Montgomery , H. J. H. Clercx

Navier-Stokes turbulence subject to solid-body rotation is studied by high-resolution direct numerical simulations (DNS) of freely decaying and stationary flows. Setups characterized by different Rossby numbers are considered. In agreement…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Thiele , W. -C. Müller

A prevalent feature of three-dimensional turbulence is the presence of anomalous dissipation, or that the mean rate of energy dissipation is bounded below by a positive number in the inviscid limit. This is thought to be due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Ethan Dudley , Konstantina Trivisa

We present predictions of the energy spectrum of forced two-dimensional turbulence obtained by employing a structure-preserving integrator. In particular, we construct a finite-mode approximation of the Navier-Stokes equations on the unit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-28 Paolo Cifani , Milo Viviani , Erwin Luesink , Klas Modin , Bernard J. Geurts

A principle of maximum entropy is proposed in the context of viscous incompressible flow in Eulerian coordinates. The relative entropy functional, defined over the space of $L^2$ divergence-free velocity fields, is maximized relative to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-23 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , James Glimm , Hamid Said

We analyze the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on a smooth, bounded domain with Navier boundary conditions. Starting from an initial vorticity in $L^p$ with $p>2$, we show strong convergence of the vorticity in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Josef Demmel , Emil Wiedemann

Upper bounds on the bulk energy dissipation rate $\epsilon$ and enstrophy dissipation rate $\chi$ are derived for the statistical steady state of body forced two dimensional turbulence in a periodic domain. For a broad class of externally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexandros Alexakis , Charles R. Doering

The strength of the nonlinearity is measured in decaying two-dimensional turbulence, by comparing its value to that found in a Gaussian field. It is shown how the nonlinearity drops following a two-step process. First a fast relaxation is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrey Pushkarev , Wouter Bos

The stability problem for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations with dissipation in only one direction on $\mathbb R^2$ is not fully understood. This dissipation is in the intermediate regime between the fully dissipative Navier-Stokes and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Zhibin Wang , Jiahong Wu , Ning Zhu

We consider freely decaying two-dimensional isotropic turbulence. It is usually assumed that, in such turbulence, the energy spectrum at small wave number, takes the form, where is the two-dimensional version of Loitsyansky's integral. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-16 Zheng Ran

We report evidence for an enstrophy cascade in large-scale point-vortex simulations of decaying two-dimensional quantum turbulence. Devising a method to generate quantum vortex configurations with kinetic energy narrowly localized near a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-08 M. T. Reeves , T. P. Billam , X. Yu , A. S. Bradley

We study the confinement of vorticity for two-dimensional incompressible flows in an infinite cylinder. For Navier-Stokes solutions with non-negative and compactly supported initial vorticity, we derive quantitative decay estimates showing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Paolo Buttà , Guido Cavallaro

We establish the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations to the isentropic Euler equations for one-dimensional compressible fluid flow. For the Navier-Stokes equations, there exist no natural invariant regions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-14 Gui-Qiang Chen , Mikhail Perepelitsa

We deal with the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, in two and three dimensions, when some vortex patches are prescribed as initial data i.e. when there is an internal boundary across which the vorticity is discontinuous. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-12 Franck Sueur

The goal of this article is to present -- in a cohesive, and somewhat self-contained fashion -- several recent results revealing an experimentally, numerically, and mathematical analysis-supported \emph{geometric scenario} manifesting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Zoran Grujić

This paper is concerned with the evolution of two incompressible, immiscible fluids in two dimensions governed by the inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations. We prove global-in-time well-posedness, establishing the preservation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Francisco Gancedo , Eduardo García-Juárez , Paula Luna-Velasco

Fully-developed incompressible Navier-Stokes turbulence in three dimensions is a dissipative dynamical system that exhibits strong departure from absolute equilibrium. Nevertheless, several kinds of representation by Tsallis equilibria have…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Toshiyuki Gotoh , Robert H. Kraichnan