Improved Well-Posedness for the Triple-Deck and Related Models via Concavity

Abstract

We establish linearized well-posedness of the Triple-Deck system in Gevrey-\(\frac{3}{2}\) regularity in the tangential variable, under concavity assumptions on the background flow. Due to the recent result (Dietert and Gerard-Varet in SIAM J Math Anal, 2021), one cannot expect a generic improvement of the result of Iyer and Vicol (Commun Pure Appl Math 74(8):1641–1684, 2021) to a weaker regularity class than real analyticity. Our approach exploits two ingredients, through an analysis of space-time modes on the Fourier–Laplace side: (i) stability estimates at the vorticity level, that involve the concavity assumption and a subtle iterative scheme adapted from Gerard-Varet et al. (Optimal Prandtl expansion around concave boundary layer, 2020. arXiv:2005.05022) (ii) smoothing properties of the Benjamin–Ono like equation satisfied by the Triple-Deck flow at infinity. Interestingly, our treatment of the vorticity equation also adapts to the so-called hydrostatic Navier–Stokes equations: we show for this system a similar Gevrey-\(\frac{3}{2}\) linear well-posedness result for concave data, improving at the linear level the recent work (Gérard-Varet et al. in Anal PDE 13(5):1417–1455, 2020).