Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equation around the plane Couette flow is investigated. It is shown that the plane Couette flow is asymptotically stable for initial disturbances sufficiently small in some L 2 Sobolev space if the Reynolds and Mach numbers are sufficiently small. Furthermore, the disturbances behave in large time in L 2 norm as solutions of an n − 1 dimensional linear heat equation with a convective term. (2000). 35Q30, 76N15.
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