Stability threshold of the 2D Couette flow in Sobolev spaces

Abstract: We study the stability threshold of the 2D Couette flow in Sobolev spaces at high Reynolds number

R e

. We prove that if the initial vorticity

O m e g a_{i n}

satisfies

| O m e g a_{i n} - (- 1) |_{H^{s i g m a}} l e q e p s i l o n R e^{- 1 / 3}

, then the solution of the 2D Navier-Stokes equation approaches to some shear flow which is also close to Couette flow for time

t g g R e^{1 / 3}

by a mixing-enhanced dissipation effect and then converges back to Couette flow when

t o + i n f t y

.

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