arXiv · 1710.05132
On pseudospectral bound for non-selfadjoint operators and its application to stability of Kolmogorov flows
Abstract
We study the stability of the Kolmogorov flows which are stationary solutions to the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of the shear external force. We establish the linear stability estimate when the viscosity coefficient $\nu$ is sufficiently small, where the enhanced dissipation is rigorously verified in the time scale $O(\nu^{-\frac12})$ for solutions to the linearized problem, which has been numerically conjectured and is much shorter than the usual viscous time scale $O(\nu^{-1})$. Our approach is based on the detailed analysis for the resolvent problem. We also provide the abstract framework which is applicable to the resolvent estimate for the Kolmogorov flows.
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Slim Ibrahim, Yasunori Maekawa, Nader Masmoudi. 2017-10-14. On pseudospectral bound for non-selfadjoint operators and its application to stability of Kolmogorov flows. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05132
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