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Enhanced dissipation for the 2D Couette flow in critical space

Analysis of PDEs 2019-08-30 v1

Abstract

We consider the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on T×R\mathbb{T}\times \mathbf{R}, with initial vorticity that is δ\delta close in HxlogLy2H^{log}_xL^2_{y} to 1-1(the vorticity of the Couette flow (y,0)(y,0)). We prove that if δν1/2\delta\ll \nu^{1/2}, where ν\nu denotes the viscosity, then the solution of the Navier-Stokes equation approaches some shear flow which is also close to Couette flow for time tν1/3t\gg \nu^{-1/3} by a mixing-enhanced dissipation effect and then converges back to Couette flow when t+t\to +\infty. In particular, we show the nonlinear enhanced dissipation and the inviscid damping results in the almost critical space HxlogLy2Lx,y2H^{log}_xL^2_{y}\subset L^2_{x,y}.

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@article{arxiv.1908.11035,
  title  = {Enhanced dissipation for the 2D Couette flow in critical space},
  author = {Nader Masmoudi and Weiren Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11035},
  year   = {2019}
}
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