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Whether the 3D incompressible Euler equations can develop a finite time singularity from smooth initial data is one of the most challenging problems in nonlinear PDEs. In this paper, we present some new numerical evidence that the 3D…

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

Inspired by the numerical evidence of a potential 3D Euler singularity by Luo-Hou [30,31] and the recent breakthrough by Elgindi [11] on the singularity formation of the 3D Euler equation without swirl with $C^{1,\alpha}$ initial velocity,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Jiajie Chen , Thomas Y. Hou

It has long been suspected that flows of incompressible fluids at large or infinite Reynolds number (namely at small or zero viscosity) may present finite time singularities. We review briefly the theoretical situation on this point. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Yves Pomeau , Martine Le Berre , Thierry Lehner

We establish the first complete classification of finite-time blow-up scenarios for strong solutions to the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations with surface tension in a bounded domain possessing a closed, moving free boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Chengchun Hao , Tao Luo , Siqi Yang

In this paper, we will introduce the inviscid vortex stretching equation, which is a model equation for the 3D Euler equation where the advection of vorticity is neglected. We will show that there are smooth solutions of this equation which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Evan Miller

We povide a test for numerical simulations for the collapse of regular tubes carried by a 3D incompressible flow. In particular, we obtain necessary conditions for 3D Euler to have a vortex tube collapse in finite time.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Diego Cordoba , Charles Fefferman

We establish the existence of solutions of the 2D incompressible non-homogeneous Euler equations with $C^{0}_{t}C^{1,\,\sqrt{\frac{4}{3}}-1-\varepsilon}_{x}\cap C^{0}_{t}L^{2}_{x}$ source terms that develop a singularity in finite time. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Diego Córdoba , Andrés Laín-Sanclemente , Luis Martínez-Zoroa

In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flows. The initial data are assumed to be smooth and rapidly decaying at infinity. A famous open problem is whether classical solutions can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Jens Lorenz , Paulo R. Zingano

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 consider the elliptic-elliptic Davey-Stewartson system in the three-dimensional Euclidean space, and we give sufficient conditions for the existence of finite time blow-up solutions in non-isotropic spaces. The proof is based on some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Luigi Forcella

We prove finite-time vorticity blowup for smooth solutions of the 2D compressible Euler equations with smooth, localized, and non-vacuous initial data. The vorticity blowup occurs at the time of the first singularity, and is accompanied by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Jiajie Chen , Giorgio Cialdea , Steve Shkoller , Vlad Vicol

In this paper, we consider the initial and boundary value problem of a simplified nematic liquid crystal flow in dimension three and construct two examples of finite time singularity. The first example is constructed within the class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Tao Huang , Fanghua Lin , Chun Liu , Changyou Wang

In this paper, we study the formation of finite time singularities in the form of super norm blowup for a spatially inhomogeneous hyperbolic system. The system is related to the variational wave equations as those in [18]. The system posses…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Geng Chen , Tao Huang , Chun Liu

Blowups of vorticity for the three- and two- dimensional homogeneous Euler equations are studied. Two regimes of approaching a blowup points, respectively, with variable or fixed time are analysed. It is shown that in the $n$-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 B. G. Konopelchenko , G. Ortenzi

We consider issues associated with the Lagrangian characterisation of flow structures arising in aperiodically time-dependent vector fields that are only known on a finite time interval. A major motivation for the consideration of this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-29 Michal Branicki , Stephen Wiggins

We provide a scenario for a singularity-mediated turbulence based on the self-focusing non-linear Schr\"odinger equation, for which sufficiently smooth initial states leads to blow-up in finite time. Here, by adding dissipation, these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-15 Christophe Josserand , Yves Pomeau , Sergio Rica

This paper studies the non-implosion mechanism for the 3D incompressible Euler equations. We prove that vorticity blows up in finite time, whereas the $L^p_T L^\infty_{loc}$ $(p\in[1,\infty))$ norm of the velocity field remains bounded.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Wenjie Deng , Song Jiang , Minling Li , Zhaonan Luo

We provide numerical evidence for a potential finite-time self-similar singularity of the 3D axisymmetric Euler equations with no swirl and with $C^\alpha$ initial vorticity for a large range of $\alpha$. We employ a highly effective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Thomas Y. Hou , Shumao Zhang

Properties of an infinite system of nonlinearly coupled ordinary differential equations are discussed. This system models some properties present in the equations of motion for an inviscid fluid such as the skew symmetry and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Alexey Cheskidov , Susan Friedlander , Natasa Pavlović

We prove finite-time vorticity blowup in the compressible Euler equations in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for any $d \geq 3$, starting from smooth, localized, and non-vacuous initial data. This is achieved by lifting the vorticity blowup result from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Jiajie Chen