Navier-Stokes, stability, Jacobian and eigenvalues

Could you share a bit more of your code ? There could be multiple issues here…

I also tried with the full F and using automated derivative at first, it was clearly not worth trying to debug it. You do need to specify a direction for the derivative, like J=derivative(F, funW, [trial function)] if you want it to work properly in assemble_system (see https://fenicsproject.org/olddocs/dolfin/2017.2.0/python/programmers-reference/fem/formmanipulations/derivative.html).

Or, we could leverage the fact that writing J explicitly is fairly trivial (NS is almost linear after all) :

u,	p=split(TrialFunction(W))
u_b,_=ufl.split(funW) # Baseflow
v,	w=split(TestFunction(W))

# Incompressibility
J  = inner(div(u), 	   w)
# Momentum (different test functions and IBP)
J += inner(grad(u_b)*u, v)    	# Convection
J += inner(grad(u)*u_b, v)
J += inner(grad(u), grad(v))*Constant(nu) # Diffusion
J -= inner(p,div(v)) 	# Pressure

I think that this should assemble fine.