We study the nonlinear stability of the quadratic plane Poiseuille flow $U(y)=(y^2,0)$ for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations on $\mathbb T\times\mathbb R$. We prove that for initial perturbations of size $O(\nu^{2/3})$ in a $\nu$-dependent weighted Sobolev space, the flow is globally nonlinear...
Tao Liang, Cui-Li Zhai, Xiao-Ping Zhai· 0 citations
We study the two-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic system near the Couette equilibrium $\bigl((y,0)^{\rm T},(\beta,0)^{\rm T}\bigr)$ on $\mathbb T\times\mathbb R$, in the anisotropic regime where both viscosity and magnetic diffusivity act only in the vertical direction. For the inviscid linearized problem...
Tao Liang, Jia-Hong Wu, Xiao-Ping Zhai· 1 citation
We study the linearized dynamics of the Kolmogorov flow $U^{(0)}=(a\sin x_2,0)$ for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations with horizontal dissipation $\nu\partial_1^2$. Unlike the fully dissipative case, this anisotropic system admits $U^{(0)}$ as an exact unforced steady state. On each horizontal...