On the stability of boundary layers of incompressible Euler equations (Q1577659)

The author studies the stability of the boundary layer of 2D-incompressible Euler equations in a periodic half strip. Using energy methods, he shows under certain assumptions (which roughly speaking say that there is no inflection point in the boundary layer profile) the linear stability of the Euler equations and, under some additional assumptions, he also proves the nonlinear stability. As an application, the asymptotic expansion of the boundary layer is proved. The other part deals with instability results; using the result of \textit{Lord Rayleigh} [On the stability, or instability of certain fluid motions, Proc. London Math. Soc. 11, 57-70 (1880)], where the linear instability is shown, the author constructs an example where the solution to the nonlinear system is unstable. Indeed, in this case there is an inflection point in the boundary layer profile.