Stability of the Couette flow under the 2D steady Navier-Stokes flow

Abstract

In this note, we investigate the stability property of shear flows under the 2D stationary Navier-Stokes equations, and we obtain that the Couette flow $(y,0)$ is stable under the space of ${\mathcal{D}}^{1,q}({\mathbb{R}}^2)$ for any $1<q<\infty$ and unstable in the space of ${\mathcal{D}}^{1,\infty }({\mathbb{R}}^2)$. A key observation is the anisotropic cut-off function. We also consider the Poiseuille flow $(y^2,0)$, which is stable in ${\mathcal{D}}^{1,q}({\mathbb{R}}^2)$ with $\frac{4}{3}<q\le 4.$

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• Liouville-type theorems for the planer stationary MHD equations with growth at infinity