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We propose a new blow-up criterion for the 3D Euler equations of incompressible fluid flows, based on the 3D Euler-Voigt inviscid regularization. This criterion is similar in character to a criterion proposed in a previous work by the…
The linear dynamics and instability mechanisms of double-layered weakly viscoelastic fluid flowing over an inclined plane are analyzed in the presence of insoluble surfactant at both the free surface and interface. The constitutive equation…
We prove that for generic geometry, the curl-eigenfield solutions to the steady Euler equations on the three torus are all hydrodynamically unstable (linear, L^2 norm). The proof involves a marriage of contact topological methods with the…
We study the stability of two-fluid flow through a plane channel at Reynolds numbers of a hundred to a thousand in the linear and nonlinear regimes. The two fluids have the same density but different viscosities. The fluids, when miscible,…
The nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-c(u)(c(u)u_x)_x=0$ determines a flow of conservative solutions taking values in the space $H^1(\mathbb{R})$. However, this flow is not continuous w.r.t. the natural $H^1$ distance. Aim of this paper is to…
The Euler equation of an ideal (i.e. inviscid incompressible) fluid can be regarded, following V.Arnold, as the geodesic flow of the right-invariant $L^2$-metric on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of the flow domain. In this…
Linear stability analysis has proven to be a useful tool in the analysis of dominant coherent structures, such as the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n vortex street and the global spiral mode associated with the vortex breakdown of swirling jets. In…
The present study examines the linear instability characteristics of double-diffusive mixed convective flow in a vertical channel with viscosity stratification. The viscosity of the fluid is modelled as an exponential function of…
We study two-phase stratified flow where the bottom layer is a thin laminar liquid and the upper layer is a fully-developed gas flow. The gas flow can be laminar or turbulent. To determine the boundary between convective and absolute…
Microscopic instability and macroscopic flow pattern resulting from colliding plasmas are studied analytically in support of laboratory experiments. The plasma flows are assumed to stream radially from two separate centers. In a…
The variational principle of V. I. Arnold [J. Appl. Math. Mech. Vol. 29, P. 1002 (1965)] is extended to the general conservative inhomogeneous, compressible, and conducting fluid. The concept of iso-vortical flows is generalized to an…
For inviscid, rotational accretion flows, both isothermal and polytropic, a simple dynamical systems analysis of the critical points has given a very accurate mathematical scheme to understand the nature of these points, for {\em any}…
In some linearly unstable flows, secondary instability is found to have a much larger wavelength than that of the primary unstable modes, so that it cannot be recovered with a classical Floquet analysis. In this work, we apply a new…
A computational study of three-dimensional instability of steady flows in a helical pipe of arbitrary curvature and torsion is carried out for the first time. The problem is formulated in Germano coordinates in two equivalent but different…
In this paper, we study the nonlinear stability for the 3-D planar helical flow $(\delta^2\sin(m_0 y),\delta^2\cos(m_0 y),0)$ on torus $\mathbb{T}^3=\{(x_1,x_2,y)\big|x_1,x_2\in \mathbb{T}_{2\pi}, y\in \mathbb{T}_{2\pi \delta},…
In this paper we argue that differential rotation can possibly sustain hydrodynamic turbulence in the absence of magnetic field. We explain why the non-linearities of the hydrodynamic equations (i.e. turbulent diffusion) should not be…
We prove the instability of the Couette flow if the disturbances is less smooth than the Gevrey space of class 2. This shows that this is the critical regularity for this problem since it was proved in [5] that stability and inviscid…
Consider the geodesic flow on a real-analytic closed hypersurface $M$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, equipped with the standard Euclidean metric. The flow is entirely determined by the manifold and the Riemannian metric. Typically, geodesic flows are…
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…
We construct Gaussian invariant measures for the two-dimensional Euler equation on the plane. We show the existence of solution with initial conditions in the support of the measures, namely $H^\beta_{loc}(\R^2)$ with $\beta<-1$. Uniqueness…