Stability for the 2-D plane Poiseuille flow in finite channel

TL;DR

This paper proves that small initial perturbations in 2-D plane Poiseuille flow with Navier-slip boundary conditions remain stable and do not transition, extending previous stability results to a broader range of initial conditions.

Contribution

It establishes a new stability criterion for 2-D plane Poiseuille flow under Navier-slip conditions, improving the initial perturbation threshold from 3/4 to 2/3.

Findings

Global stability for small initial perturbations under Navier-slip boundary conditions.

Extension of stability threshold from 3/4 to 2/3.

Perturbations with norm below the threshold do not cause transition.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the stability for 2-D plane Poiseuille flow $(1-y^2,0)$ in a channel $\mathbb{T}\times (-1,1)$ with Navier-slip boundary condition. We prove that if the initial perturbation for velocity field $u_0$ satisfies that $\|u_0\|_{H^{\frac{7}{2}+}} \leq \epsilon_1 \nu^{2/3}$ for some suitable small $0<\epsilon_1 \ll 1$ independent of viscosity coefficient $\nu$, then the solution to the Navier-Stokes equations is global in time and does not transit from the plane Poiseuille flow. This result improves the result of \cite{DL1} from $3/4$ to $2/3$.