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We investigate the time-asymptotic stability of solutions to the one-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Fourier system in the half-space, focusing on the outflow and impermeable wall problems. When the prescribed boundary and far-field conditions…
The completeness of solutions of homogeneous as well as non-homogeneous unsteady Stokes equations are examined. A necessary and sufficient condition for a divergence-free vector to represent the velocity field of a possible unsteady Stokes…
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