Stability threshold of two-dimensional Couette flow in Sobolev spaces (Q2693065)

Summary: We study the stability threshold of the two-dimensional Couette flow in Sobolev spaces at high Reynolds number \(\operatorname{Re}\). We prove that if the initial vorticity \(\Omega_{\mathrm{in}}\) in satisfies \(\Vert\Omega_{\mathrm{in}}-(-1)\Vert_{H^\sigma}\leq\varepsilon\operatorname{Re}^{-1/3}\), then the solution of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation approaches some shear flow which is also close to Couette flow for time \(t\gg\operatorname{Re}^{1/3}\) by a mixing-enhanced dissipation effect, and then converges back to Couette flow when \(t\to+\infty\).