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We consider steady, two-dimensional motions of an incompressible, Newtonian fluid flowing under gravity down an inclined channel. If the bottom of the channel is flat, the flow is the classical Poiseuille-Nusselt flow and the free surface is then a plane parallel to the bottom. Motivated by the recent experimental and numerical studies of Pritchard, Scott & Tavener, we look at bottom configurations which possess some localized, non-uniform structure. We present an existence theory for steady, highly viscous flow over such configurations. An important consequence of our theory is that the steady flows whose existence is established decay exponentially rapidly to the unperturbed Poiseuille-Nusselt flow away from the local variation in the channel bottom profile.
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Abergel, F., Bona, J.L. A mathematical theory for viscous, free-surface flows over a perturbed plane. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 118, 71–93 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00375692
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00375692