Local Rigidity of the Couette Flow for the Stationary Triple-Deck Equations

Abstract

The Triple-Deck equations are a classical boundary layer model which describes the asymptotics of a viscous flow near the separation point, and the Couette flow is an exact stationary solution to the Triple-Deck equations. In this paper we prove the local rigidity of the Couette flow in the sense that there are no other stationary solutions near the Couette flow in a scale invariant space. This provides a stark contrast to the well-studied stationary Prandtl counterpart, and in particular offers a first result towards the rigidity question raised by R. E. Meyer in 1983.