Braz e Silva, Pablo2020-08-212020-08-212002-10-27Braz e Silva, P. (2002). Resolvent estimates for 2-dimensional perturbations of plane Couette flow. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2002</i>(92), pp. 1-15.1072-6691https://hdl.handle.net/10877/12449We present results concerning resolvent estimates for the linear operator associated with the system of differential equations governing 2 dimensional perturbations of plane Couette flow. We prove estimates on the L2 norm of the resolvent of this operator showing this norm to be proportional to the Reynolds number R for a region of the unstable half plane. For the remaining region, we show that the problem can be reduced to estimating the solution of a homogeneous ordinary differential equation with non-homogeneous boundary conditions. Numerical approximations indicate that the norm of the resolvent is proportional to R in the whole region of interest.Text15 pages1 file (.pdf)enAttribution 4.0 InternationalCouette flowResolvent estimatesArticle