Boundary Layers and Initial-Boundary Corner Asymptotics for the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations with Vanishing Vertical Viscosity

Siwei Chen; Yinghui Wang; Weihao Zhang

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Boundary Layers and Initial-Boundary Corner Asymptotics for the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations with Vanishing Vertical Viscosity

Siwei Chen·Yinghui Wang·Weihao Zhang

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Motivated by anisotropic viscosity in geophysical fluid dynamics, where vertical momentum diffusion is often much weaker than horizontal diffusion and may be negligible in the interior yet remains essential near a solid wall, we study the vanishing vertical viscosity limit for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations in the upper half-plane, with horizontal viscosity fixed at one and vertical viscosity $\varepsilon^2$. For arbitrary divergence-free $H^4$ no-slip initial data, with no time-differentiated compatibility conditions required, we construct the limiting horizontally viscous flow and the boundary-layer profiles on every prescribed finite interval $[0,T]$. The leading-order corrected approximation has $O(\varepsilon)$ error in $L^\infty$, and the full finite-order expansion reduces this error to $O(\varepsilon^{3/2})$, uniformly down to $t=0$. We further describe the development of the layer from data that vanish initially at the wall. At the initial--boundary corner, we determine the first two self-similar coefficients and characterize matching through exact profile tails, thereby separating the fixed-time scale $\varepsilon$ from the short-time scale $\varepsilon\sqrt t$. When the initial wall acceleration is nonzero, both the leading correction rate and the first normalized corner remainder are sharp. Finally, continuity estimates for fixed data yield joint small-time and small-viscosity limits for the exact solution, as well as finite-$L^p$ asymptotics.

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Siwei Chen, Yinghui Wang, Weihao Zhang. 2026-09-29. Boundary Layers and Initial-Boundary Corner Asymptotics for the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations with Vanishing Vertical Viscosity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37977

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