Title: Investigation of the stability of a stationary solution of a system of equations for the plane movement of an incompressible viscous liquid
Abstract: We consider the Navier–Stokes equations on the two-dimensional unit sphere and study the linear stability of the two-jet Kolmogorov type flow which is a stationary solution given by the zonal spherical harmonic function of degree two. We prove the linear stability of the two-jet Kolmogorov type flow for an arbitrary viscosity coefficient by showing the exponential decay of a solution to the linearized equation towards an equilibrium which grows as the viscosity coefficient tends to zero. The main result of this paper is the nonexistence of nonzero eigenvalues of the perturbation operator appearing in the linearized equation. By making use of the mixing property of the perturbation operator which is expressed by a recurrence relation for the spherical harmonics, we show that the perturbation operator does not have not only nonreal but also nonzero real eigenvalues. As an application of this result, we get the enhanced dissipation for the two-jet Kolmogorov type flow in the sense that a solution to the linearized equation rescaled in time decays arbitrarily fast as the viscosity coefficient tends to zero.
Publication Year: 1961
Publication Date: 1961-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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