On the ill-posedness of the Prandtl equation

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2009-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/0904.0434v2

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

A few more typos corrected. Definition of L_eps added on page 12. Confusing semigroup notation corrected

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The concern of this paper is the Cauchy problem for the Prandtl equation. This problem is known to be well-posed for analytic data, or for data with monotonicity properties. We prove here that it is linearly ill-posed in Sobolev type spaces. The key of the analysis is the construction, at high tangential frequencies, of unstable quasimodes for the linearization around solutions with non-degenerate critical points. Interestingly, the strong instability is due to vicosity, which is coherent with well-posedness results obtained for the inviscid version of the equation. A numerical study of this instability is also provided.

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