Linear inviscid damping and enhanced dissipation for the Kolmogorov flow

TL;DR

This paper proves linear inviscid damping and enhanced dissipation phenomena for the Kolmogorov flow, confirming numerical predictions and solving conjectures on optimal dissipation rates for related fluid equations.

Contribution

It establishes the linear inviscid damping and enhanced dissipation for the Kolmogorov flow and confirms the optimal dissipation rate conjecture for the 2-D linearized Navier-Stokes equations.

Findings

Confirmed Bouchet and Morita's predictions through rigorous proof.

Solved Beck and Wayne's conjecture on optimal dissipation rate.

Proved the same dissipation rate for Navier-Stokes with initial velocities in a basin of attraction.

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the linear inviscid damping and voticity depletion phenomena for the linearized Euler equations around the Kolmogorov flow. These results confirm Bouchet and Morita's predictions based on numerical analysis. By using the wave operator method introduced by Li, Wei and Zhang, we solve Beck and Wayne's conjecture on the optimal enhanced dissipation rate for the 2-D linearized Navier-Stokes equations around the bar state called Kolmogorov flow. The same dissipation rate is proved for the Navier-Stokes equations if the initial velocity is included in a basin of attraction of the Kolmogorov flow with the size of $\nu^{\frac 23+}$, here $\nu$ is the viscosity coefficient.