Electron. J. Differential Equations, Vol. 2025 (2025), No. 107, pp. 1-14.

Linear stability of the Couette flow for non-isentropic compressible fluids

Xiaoping Zhai

Abstract:
In this article, we study the linear stability of a two-dimensional non-isentropic compressible fluid with vanishing shear viscosity in the context of Couette flow on an infinitely long flat torus \(\mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}\). By employing explicit weighted energy estimates and the Fourier multipliers method, we first establish the inviscid damping of the incompressible component of the velocity. Subsequently, we derive an upper bound which is superlinear in time for the compressible part of the fluid. Furthermore, we demonstrate an enhanced dissipation phenomenon for the velocity field under certain quality conditions pertaining to the initial density, initial temperature, and incompressible component of the initial velocity field.

Submitted May 23, 2025. Published November 14, 2025.
Math Subject Classifications: 76E05, 76E19.
Key Words: Stability; compressible Navier-Stokes equations; Couette flow; enhanced dissipation
DOI: 10.58997/ejde.2025.107

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Xiaoping Zhai
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Guangdong University of Technology
Guangzhou, 510520, China
email: pingxiaozhai@163.com

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