The Vanishing Viscosity Limit and Boundary Layers for Symmetric Fluid Flows with Anisotropic Viscosity

Mathematics > Analysis of PDEs [Submitted on 16 Jun 2026] Title:The Vanishing Viscosity Limit and Boundary Layers for Symmetric Fluid Flows with Anisotropic Viscosity View PDFAbstract:We study the vanishing viscosity limit for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with anisotropic viscosity in bounded domains, analyzing certain classes of symmetric flows: plane parallel, pipe parallel and circularly symmetric. By anisotropic viscosity, it is meant here that the viscosity coefficient in the direction normal to the wall is different than that in the direction tangential to the wall. Using boundary layer theory and semigroup techniques, we establish the validity of the vanishing viscosity limit in the energy norm, that is, in $L^2$ in space uniformly in time, for all three classes of flows, with explicit convergence rates. We further obtain higher-order estimates under suitable assumptions on the anisotropic viscosity coefficients. In particular, we consider both the case in which the tangential viscosity coefficient goes to zero faster than the normal one and, conversely, the case when the normal coefficient vanishes faster then the tangential one. Our results extend previous works on isotropic viscosity and provide new examples where the vanishing viscosity limit can be rigorously justified in the anisotropic setting. References & Citations Loading... Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Recommenders and Search Tools Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.