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Lyapunov’s second method was used to study the nonlinear stability of parallel shear flows for stress-free boundaries. By introducing an energy functional, it was shown that the plane Couette and plane Poiseuille flows are conditionally and asymptotically stable for all Reynolds numbers. In particular, to two-dimensional perturbations, by defining new energy functionals the unconditional stability of the basic flows was proved.