Dolce, Michele2024-05-162024-05-162024-05-162024-04-0110.1007/s00220-024-04982-zhttps://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/207926WOS:001199509500010We consider a 2D incompressible and electrically conducting fluid in the domain T x R. The aim is to quantify stability properties of the Couette flow (y, 0) with a constant homogenous magnetic field (beta, 0) when |beta|>1/2. The focus lies on the regime with small fluid viscosity nu, magnetic resistivity mu and we assume that the magnetic Prandtl number satisfies mu(2 )less than or similar to Pr-m = nu/mu <= 1. We establish that small perturbations around this steady state remain close to it, provided their size is of order epsilon << nu(2/3) in H(N )with N large enough. Additionally, the vorticity and current density experience a transient growth of order nu(-1/3)while converging exponentially fast to an x-independent state after a time-scale of order nu(-1/3). The growth is driven by an inviscid mechanism, while the subsequent exponential decay results from the interplay between transport and diffusion, leading to the dissipation enhancement. A key argument to prove these results is to reformulate the system in terms of symmetric variables, inspired by the study of inhomogeneous fluid, to effectively characterize the system's dynamic behavior.Physical SciencesEnhanced DissipationInstabilityTransitionEquationsDynamicstext::journal::journal article::research article