In a region closer to the boundary compared to Prandtl layer, an inviscid disturbance can be manifested by the interaction with viscous mode via the no-slip boundary condition due to resonance. In some unstable range of parameters, this leads to instability in the transition regime from laminar flow to turbulence. This instability phenomenon was observed by physicists long time ago, such as Heisenberg, Tollmien and C.C. Lin, etc. And it was justified rigorously in mathematics by Grenier-Guo-Nguyen using the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. In this talk, we will present some results on this phenomenon in some other physical situations in which the governing system is either MHD or compressible Navier-Stokes equation. The talk is based on some recent joint work with Chengjie Liu and Zhu Zhang.

In this talk, we discuss the Cauchy problem for the Vlasov-Riesz system, which is a Vlasov equation featuring interaction potentials generalizing various previously studied cases, including the Coulomb and Manev potentials. For the first time, we extend the local theory of classical solutions to interaction potentials which are more singular than that for the Manev. Then, we obtain finite-time singularity formation for solutions with various attractive interaction potentials, extending the well-known singularity formation result for attractive Vlasov-Poisson. Our local well-posedness and singularity formation results extend to cases with linear diffusion and damping in velocity.