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Multi-Sink Solutions to the Self-Similar Euler Equations

Analysis of PDEs 2026-02-25 v2 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We construct examples and provide a classification of self-similar solutions to the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations whose pseudo-velocity fields possess more than one stagnation point. These solutions are also homogeneous steady states of the Euler equations. In contrast, we prove that any homogeneous self-similar solution with bounded vorticity away from the origin necessarily admits only a single stagnation point, located at the origin. The solutions we construct develop velocity cusps along rays from the origin, and this allows for additional stagnation points of the pseudo-velocity field.

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@article{arxiv.2602.15152,
  title  = {Multi-Sink Solutions to the Self-Similar Euler Equations},
  author = {Hyungjun Choi and Matei P. Coiculescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15152},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

23 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. We added a proof of existence of multi-sink solutions and a classification of homogeneous self-similar solutions obtained by gluing

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