Linear inviscid damping and enhanced viscous dissipation of shear flows by using the conjugate operator method (Q2007982): Difference between revisions

The long time behavior of solutions to the two 2D linearized systems is studied. The first system is the Euler one linearized near a stationary shear flow. \[ \frac{\partial v}{\partial t}+(U_s\cdot \nabla)v+(v\cdot \nabla)U_s+\nabla p=0,\quad \mbox{div}\,v=0,\quad x\in \mathbb{T},\,y\in \mathbb{R},\tag{1} \] where \(U_s\) is a smooth stationary shear flow under the form \(U_s=(U(y),0)\). The second system is the linearized Navier-Stokes one. \[ \frac{\partial v}{\partial t}+(U_s\cdot \nabla)v+(v\cdot \nabla)U_s+\nabla p-\nu\Delta v=0,\quad \mbox{div}\,v=0,\quad x\in \mathbb{T},\,y\in \mathbb{R},\tag{2} \] where \(\nu>0\) is a small viscosity. The function \(U\) is assumed to be smooth and ensured a spectral stability of a self-adjoint operator \[ -\frac{\partial^2}{\partial y^2}+\frac{U^{\prime\prime}}{U}. \] It is proved that: \begin{itemize} \item[1)] let \(v=(v^1,v^2)\) is the solution to the system (1) and \((v^1_\alpha,v^2_\alpha)_{\alpha\in \mathbb{Z}}\) are the Fourier coefficients with respect to the variable \(x\in\mathbb{T}\), then for the large time \[ \Vert v^1_\alpha(t)\Vert\leq\frac{C}{|\alpha| t},\quad \Vert v^2_\alpha(t)\Vert\leq\frac{C|\alpha|}{(\alpha t)^2}, \] \item[2)] the solution to the problem (2) is damped at the time scale \(\nu^{-1/3}\). \end{itemize} The prove is based on the conjugate operator method.