Global existence for the two-dimensional Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation with a shear flow

Abstract

AbstractWe consider the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation (KSE) on the two-dimensional torus in the presence of advection by a given background shear flow. Under the assumption that the shear has a finite number of critical points and there are linearly growing modes only in the direction of the shear, we prove global existence of solutions with data in $$L^2$$ L 2 , using a bootstrap argument. The initial data can be taken arbitrarily large.