2022/08/23 by Guodong Wang, Wang, Guodong, Bijun Zuo +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Navier-Stokes equation solutions #Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.10697
openalex publication_date 2022/08/23 · openalex created_date 2022/08/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We give a sufficient condition for the nonlinear stability of steady flows of a two-dimensional ideal fluid in a bounded multiply-connected domain, which generalizes a stability criterion proved by Arnold in the 1960s. The most important ingredient of the proof is to establish a variational characterization for the steady flow under consideration, which is achieved based on the energy-Casimir method proposed by Arnold, and the supporting functional method introduced by Wolansky and Ghil. Nonlinear stability then follows from a compactness argument related to the variational characterization and proper use of conserved quantities of the two-dimensional Euler equations.