Singularity Structures of Linear Inviscid Damping in a Channel

Abstract

This paper studies singularity structures of the linear inviscid damping of two-dimensional Euler equations in a finite periodic channel. We introduce a recursive definition of singularity structures which characterize the singularities of the spectrum density function from different sources: the free part and the boundary part of the Green function. As an application, we demonstrate that the stream function exhibits smoothness away from the channel's boundary, yet it presents singularities in close proximity to the boundary. The singularities arise due to the interaction of boundary and interior singularities of the spectrum density function. We also show that the behavior of the initial data and background flow have an impact on the regularity of different components of the stream function.