Stability of Couette flow for 2D Boussinesq system with vertical dissipation

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Abstract: This paper establishes the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow for the 2D Boussinesq equations with only vertical dissipation. The Boussinesq equations concerned here model buoyancy-driven fluids such as atmospheric and oceanographic flows. Due to the presence of the buoyancy forcing, the energy of the standard Boussinesq equations could grow in time. It is the enhanced dissipation created by the linear non-self-adjoint operator ypartialxupartialyy in the perturbation equation that makes the nonlinear stability possible. When the initial perturbation from the Couette flow (y,0) is no more than the viscosity to a suitable power (in the Sobolev space Hb with b>frac43), we prove that the solution of the 2D Boussnesq system with only vertical dissipation on mathbbTimesmathbbR remains close to the Couette at the same order. A special consequence of this result is the stability of the Couette for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations with only vertical dissipation.



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