On the stability of laminar flows between plates

Yaniv Almog, Bernard Helffer

Consider a two-dimensional laminar flow between two plates, so that $(x_1,x_2)\in \mathbb{R}\times [-1,1]$, given by $\mathbf{v}(x_1,x_2)=(U(x_2),0)$, where $U\in C^4([-1,1])$ sa…