Stability for two-dimensional plane Couette flow to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier boundary conditions

Abstract: This paper concerns with the stability of the plane Couette flow resulted from the motions of boundaries that the top boundary

S i g m a_{1}

and the bottom one

S i g m a_{0}

move with constant velocities

(a, 0)

and

(b, 0)

, respectively. If one imposes Dirichlet boundary condition on the top boundary and Navier boundary condition on the bottom boundary with Navier coefficient

a l p h a

, there always exists a plane Couette flow which is exponentially stable for nonnegative

a l p h a

and any positive viscosity

m u

and any

a, b i n m a t h b b R

, or, for

a l p h a < 0

but viscosity

m u

and the moving velocities of boundaries

(a, 0), (b, 0)

satisfy some conditions stated in Theorem 1.1. However, if we impose Navier boundary conditions on both boundaries with Navier coefficients

a l p h a_{0}

and

a l p h a_{1}

, then it is proved that there also exists a plane Couette flow (including constant flow or trivial steady states) which is exponentially stable provided that any one of two conditions on

a l p h a_{0}, a l p h a_{1}

,

a, b

and

m u

in Theorem 1.2 holds. Therefore, the known results for the stability of incompressible Couette flow to no-slip (Dirichlet) boundary value problems are extended to the Navier boundary value problems.

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The stability of plane Couette flow for viscous incompressible fluid in a two dimensional slab domain is considered in the paper. A fluid occupies domain \(\Omega=[-\pi,\pi]\times (0,1)\). The velocity \(v(x,y,t)\) and the pressure \(p(x,y,t)\) satisfy to the Navier-Stokes equations. \[ \frac{\partial v}{\partial t}-\nu\Delta v+(v\cdot\nabla)v+\nabla p=0,\quad \mbox{div}\,v=0,\quad \quad\quad(1) \] where \(\nu=const>0\) is the viscosity. The flow is periodic in \(x\) direction. Different boundary conditions are met on the bottom \(\Gamma_0=\{y=0\}\) and on the top \(\Gamma_1=\{y=1\}\). \[ \begin{array}{l} v\cdot n=0\quad \mbox{on}\ \Gamma_0\cup\Gamma_1, \vphantom{\begin{array}{c}I\\ I\end{array}}\\ v=(a,0)\quad \mbox{on}\ \Gamma_1,\quad \quad\quad\quad \quad\quad\quad \quad\quad(2) \vphantom{\begin{array}{c}I\\ I\end{array}}\\ S(v)\cdot n\cdot\tau+\alpha(v-(b,0))\cdot\tau=0\quad \mbox{on}\ \Gamma_0. \end{array} \] Another type of boundary conditions is \[ \begin{array}{l} v\cdot n=0\quad \mbox{on}\ \Gamma_0\cup\Gamma_1, \vphantom{\begin{array}{c}I\\ I\end{array}}\\ S(v)\cdot n\cdot\tau+\alpha_1(v-(a,0))\cdot\tau=0\quad \mbox{on}\ \Gamma_1,\quad \quad\quad\quad \quad\quad(3) \vphantom{\begin{array}{c}I\\ I\end{array}}\\ S(v)\cdot n\cdot\tau+\alpha_0(v-(b,0))\cdot\tau=0\quad \mbox{on}\ \Gamma_0. \end{array} \] Here \(a=const\) is the velocity at the top boundary, \(b=const\) is the velocity at the bottom boundary, \(n\) is the unit outward normal to the boundary, \(\tau\) is is the tangential vector, \(\alpha,\alpha_0,\alpha_1\) are the constants of slip length, \(S(v)\) is the stress tensor, \(S(v)=\mu(\nabla v+(\nabla v)^T)\). \par It is proved that under certain conditions on constants \(a,b,\mu,\alpha\) the plane Couette flow is exponentially stable for the problem (1), (2). It is also proved that the plane Couette flow is exponentially stable for the problem (1), (3) under the certain conditions on constants \(a,b,\mu,\alpha_0,\alpha_1\).

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