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Forward self-similar solutions to the 2D Navier--Stokes equations

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-07 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We construct self-similar solutions to the 2D Navier--Stokes equations evolving from arbitrarily large 1-1--homogeneous initial data and present numerical evidence for their non-uniqueness.

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@article{arxiv.2601.03161,
  title  = {Forward self-similar solutions to the 2D Navier--Stokes equations},
  author = {Dallas Albritton and Julien Guillod and Mikhail Korobkov and Xiao Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03161},
  year   = {2026}
}

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35 pages, 4 figures

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