Energy dissipation near the outflow boundary in the vanishing viscosity limit
Energy dissipation near the outflow boundary in the vanishing viscosity limit
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Jincheng Yang, IAS
Fine Hall 314
We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes and Euler equations in a bounded domain with non-characteristic boundary condition, and study the energy dissipation near the outflow boundary in the zero-viscosity limit. We show that in a general setting, the energy dissipation rate is proportional to ˉUˉV2, where ˉU is the strength of the suction and ˉV is the tangential component of the difference between Euler and Navier-Stokes on the outflow boundary. Moreover, we show that the enstrophy within a layer of order ν/ˉU is comparable with the total enstrophy. The rate of enstrophy production near the boundary is inversely proportional to ν.