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We consider a system of two incompressible fluids separated by a free interface. The first fluid is inviscid, governed by the Euler system, while the second fluid has positive viscosity and is governed by the Navier-Stokes system. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Aynur Bulut

In this work we are interested in extreme vortex states leading to the maximum possible growth of palinstrophy in 2D viscous incompressible flows on periodic domains. This study is a part of a broader research effort motivated by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Diego Ayala , Bartosz Protas

We investigate the singularity formation of a 3D model that was recently proposed by Hou and Lei in [16] for axisymmetric 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with swirl. The main difference between the 3D model of Hou and Lei and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Thomas Y. Hou , Zuoqiang Shi , Shu Wang

The problem of global-in-time regularity for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations, i.e., the question of whether a smooth flow can exhibit spontaneous formation of singularities, is a fundamental open problem in mathematical physics. Due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Zoran Grujic , Liaosha Xu

The 2D Euler system, which governs inviscid incompressible fluid flow, can admit infinitely many steady solutions in a given domain with slip boundary conditions. To select physical classical solutions, we investigate the vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Changfeng Gui , Chunjing Xie , Huan Xu

To investigate the finite time singularity in three-dimensional (3D) Euler flows, the simplified model of 3D axisymmetric incompressible fluids (i.e., two-dimensional Boussinesq approximation equations) is studied numerically. The system…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Yin , Tao Tang

We study a 3D nonlinear moving boundary fluid-structure interaction problem describing the interaction of the fluid flow with a rigid body. The fluid flow is governed by 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, while the motion of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Boris Muha , Šárka Nečasová , Ana Radošević

Point vortex models are presented for the generalized Euler equations, which are characterized by a fractional Laplacian relation between the active scalar and the streamfunction. Special focus is given to the case of the surface…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Gualtiero Badin , Anna M. Barry

We consider the motion of an axisymmetric column of Navier-Stokes fluid with a free surface. Due to surface tension, the thickness of the fluid neck goes to zero in finite time. After the singularity, the fluid consists of two halves, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jens Eggers

The goal of this numerical study is to get insight into singular solutions of the two-dimensional (2D) Euler equations for non-smooth initial data, in particular for vortex sheets. To this end high resolution computations of vortex layers…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Julius Bergmann , Thibault Maurel-Oujia , Xi-Yuan , Yin , Jean-Christophe Nave , Kai Schneider

In this paper, we present strong numerical evidences that the incompressible axisymmetric Euler equations with degenerate viscosity coefficients and smooth initial data of finite energy develop a potential finite-time locally self-similar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Thomas Y. Hou , De Huang

Fractional Navier-Stokes equations -- featuring a fractional Laplacian -- provide a `bridge' between the Euler equations (zero diffusion) and the Navier-Stokes equations (full diffusion). The problem of whether an initially smooth flow can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Jiayi Wang

We investigate the singularity formation of a nonlinear nonlocal system. This nonlocal system is a simplified one-dimensional system of the 3D model that was recently proposed by Hou and Lei in [13] for axisymmetric 3D incompressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Thomas Y. Hou , Congming Li , Zuoqiang Shi , Shu Wang , Xinwei Yu

Singular vorticty solutions of the incompressible 3D-Euler equation are constructed which satisfy the BKM criterion (cf. [2]). The construction is done by inviscid limits of vorticity solutions of transformed incompressible Navier Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Joerg Kampen

We investigate the role of convection on its large time behavior of 3D incompressible Euler equations. In \cite{HL09a}, we constructed a new 3D model by neglecting the convection term from the reformulated axisymmetric Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-18 Thomas Y. Hou , Zhen Lei

We propose a two-dimensional generalization of Constantin-Lax-Majda model [2]. Some results about singular solutions are given. This model might be the first step toward the singular solutions of the Euler equations. Along the same line…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Dapeng Du

This paper deals with the longstanding quest of the possible existence of finite-time singularities in the equations governing the dynamics of inviscid fluids, namely, Euler equations. Here, two contributions are brought for the case of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Mokhtar Adda-Bedia , Sergio Rica

Classical vorticity solution branches of the three dimensional incompressible Euler equation are constructed where a velocity component can blow up at some point after finite time for regular data in H2. Furthermore, vorticity can blow up…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Joerg Kampen

We consider the question whether starting from a smooth initial condition 3D inviscid Euler flows on a periodic domain $\mathbb{T}^3$ may develop singularities in a finite time. Our point of departure is the well-known result by Kato…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-20 Xinyu Zhao , Bartosz Protas

In the present work, we consider the evolution of two fluids separated by a sharp interface in the presence of surface tension - like, for example, the evolution of oil bubbles in water. Our main result is a weak-strong uniqueness principle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Julian Fischer , Sebastian Hensel