Energy analysis of development of kinematic perturbations in weakly inhomogeneous viscous fluids (Q1592061)

The deformation stability relative to small perturbations is analyzed for weakly inhomogeneous viscous media under the assumption that both the main flow and perturbation field are three-dimensional. To test the damping or growth of initial perturbations, the authors obtain sufficient estimates based on the use of variational inequalities in different function spaces (energy estimates). The choice of function space determines the measure of parameter deviations which may be different for initial and current parameters. The unperturbed process chosen is a fairly arbitrary unsteady flow of homogeneous incompressible fluid in a three-dimensional region of Eulerian space. At the initial instant not only the kinematics of the motion but also the density and viscosity of the fluid are disturbed, and therefore the medium is called weakly inhomogeneous.