Dynamics Near the Subcritical Transition of the 3D Couette Flow I
Dynamics Near the Subcritical Transition of the 3D Couette Flow I

Author: Jacob Bedrossian

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781470462512

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"We study small disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number Re. We prove that for sufficiently regular initial data of size [epsilon] [less than or equal to] c0Re-1 for some universal c0 > 0, the solution is global, remains within O(c0) of the Couette flow in L2, and returns to the Couette flow as t [right arrow] [infinity]. For times t >/-Re1/3, the streamwise dependence is damped by a mixing-enhanced dissipation effect and the solution is rapidly attracted to the class of "2.5 dimensional" streamwise-independent solutions referred to as streaks. Our analysis contains perturbations that experience a transient growth of kinetic energy from O(Re-1) to O(c0) due to the algebraic linear instability known as the lift-up effect. Furthermore, solutions can exhibit a direct cascade of energy to small scales. The behavior is very different from the 2D Couette flow, in which stability is independent of Re, enstrophy experiences a direct cascade, and inviscid damping is dominant (resulting in a kind of inverse energy cascade). In 3D, inviscid damping will play a role on one component of the velocity, but the primary stability mechanism is the mixing-enhanced dissipation. Central to the proof is a detailed analysis of the interplay between the stabilizing effects of the mixing and enhanced dissipation and the destabilizing effects of the lift-up effect, vortex stretching, and weakly nonlinear instabilities connected to the non-normal nature of the linearization"--

Dynamics Near the Subcritical Transition of the 3D Couette Flow I: Below Threshold Case
Dynamics Near the Subcritical Transition of the 3D Couette Flow I: Below Threshold Case

Author: Jacob Bedrossian

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1470442175

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The authors study small disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number Re. They prove that for sufficiently regular initial data of size $epsilon leq c_0mathbf {Re}^-1$ for some universal $c_0 > 0$, the solution is global, remains within $O(c_0)$ of the Couette flow in $L^2$, and returns to the Couette flow as $t rightarrow infty $. For times $t gtrsim mathbf {Re}^1/3$, the streamwise dependence is damped by a mixing-enhanced dissipation effect and the solution is rapidly attracted to the class of ``2.5 dimensional'' streamwise-independent solutions referred to as streaks.

The Mathematical Analysis of the Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations
The Mathematical Analysis of the Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations

Author: Jacob Bedrossian

Publisher: American Mathematical Society

Published: 2022-09-22

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1470471787

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The aim of this book is to provide beginning graduate students who completed the first two semesters of graduate-level analysis and PDE courses with a first exposure to the mathematical analysis of the incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. The book gives a concise introduction to the fundamental results in the well-posedness theory of these PDEs, leaving aside some of the technical challenges presented by bounded domains or by intricate functional spaces. Chapters 1 and 2 cover the fundamentals of the Euler theory: derivation, Eulerian and Lagrangian perspectives, vorticity, special solutions, existence theory for smooth solutions, and blowup criteria. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 cover the fundamentals of the Navier-Stokes theory: derivation, special solutions, existence theory for strong solutions, Leray theory of weak solutions, weak-strong uniqueness, existence theory of mild solutions, and Prodi-Serrin regularity criteria. Chapter 6 provides a short guide to the must-read topics, including active research directions, for an advanced graduate student working in incompressible fluids. It may be used as a roadmap for a topics course in a subsequent semester. The appendix recalls basic results from real, harmonic, and functional analysis. Each chapter concludes with exercises, making the text suitable for a one-semester graduate course. Prerequisites to this book are the first two semesters of graduate-level analysis and PDE courses.

Linear Dynamical Systems on Hilbert Spaces: Typical Properties and Explicit Examples
Linear Dynamical Systems on Hilbert Spaces: Typical Properties and Explicit Examples

Author: S. Grivaux

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2021-06-21

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1470446634

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We solve a number of questions pertaining to the dynamics of linear operators on Hilbert spaces, sometimes by using Baire category arguments and sometimes by constructing explicit examples. In particular, we prove the following results. (i) A typical hypercyclic operator is not topologically mixing, has no eigen-values and admits no non-trivial invariant measure, but is densely distri-butionally chaotic. (ii) A typical upper-triangular operator with coefficients of modulus 1 on the diagonal is ergodic in the Gaussian sense, whereas a typical operator of the form “diagonal with coefficients of modulus 1 on the diagonal plus backward unilateral weighted shift” is ergodic but has only countably many unimodular eigenvalues; in particular, it is ergodic but not ergodic in the Gaussian sense. (iii) There exist Hilbert space operators which are chaotic and U-frequently hypercyclic but not frequently hypercyclic, Hilbert space operators which are chaotic and frequently hypercyclic but not ergodic, and Hilbert space operators which are chaotic and topologically mixing but not U-frequently hypercyclic. We complement our results by investigating the descriptive complexity of some natural classes of operators defined by dynamical properties.

Resolvent, Heat Kernel, and Torsion under Degeneration to Fibered Cusps
Resolvent, Heat Kernel, and Torsion under Degeneration to Fibered Cusps

Author: Pierre Albin

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2021-06-21

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1470444224

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Manifolds with fibered cusps are a class of complete non-compact Riemannian manifolds including many examples of locally symmetric spaces of rank one. We study the spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian with coefficients in a flat bundle on a closed manifold undergoing degeneration to a manifold with fibered cusps. We obtain precise asymptotics for the resolvent, the heat kernel, and the determinant of the Laplacian. Using these asymptotics we obtain a topological description of the analytic torsion on a manifold with fibered cusps in terms of the R-torsion of the underlying manifold with boundary.

Operator Theory on One-Sided Quaternion Linear Spaces: Intrinsic $S$-Functional Calculus and Spectral Operators
Operator Theory on One-Sided Quaternion Linear Spaces: Intrinsic $S$-Functional Calculus and Spectral Operators

Author: Jonathan Gantner

Publisher: American Mathematical Society

Published: 2021-02-10

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1470442388

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Two major themes drive this article: identifying the minimal structure necessary to formulate quaternionic operator theory and revealing a deep relation between complex and quaternionic operator theory. The theory for quaternionic right linear operators is usually formulated under the assumption that there exists not only a right- but also a left-multiplication on the considered Banach space $V$. This has technical reasons, as the space of bounded operators on $V$ is otherwise not a quaternionic linear space. A right linear operator is however only associated with the right multiplication on the space and in certain settings, for instance on quaternionic Hilbert spaces, the left multiplication is not defined a priori, but must be chosen randomly. Spectral properties of an operator should hence be independent of the left multiplication on the space.