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Does three-dimensional incompressible Euler flow with smooth initial conditions develop a singularity with infinite vorticity after a finite time? This blowup problem is still open. After briefly reviewing what is known and pointing out…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Frisch , T. Matsumoto , J. Bec

In this paper and the companion paper [EJE2], we establish finite-time singularity formation for finite-energy strong solutions to the axi-symmetric $3D$ Euler equations in the domain $\{(x,y,z)\in\mathbb{R}^3:z^2\leq c(x^2+y^2)\}$ for some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick

We address the question whether a singularity in a three-dimensional incompressible inviscid fluid flow can occur in finite time. Analytical considerations and numerical simulations suggest high-symmetry flows being a promising candidate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-10 Tobias Grafke , Rainer Grauer

Whether singularities can form in fluids remains a foundational unanswered question in mathematics. This phenomenon occurs when solutions to governing equations, such as the 3D Euler equations, develop infinite gradients from smooth initial…

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

We consider the motion of the interface separating two domains of the same fluid that moves with different velocity along the tangential direction of the interface. We assume that the fluids occupying the two domains are of constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sijue Wu

The formation of singularities on a free surface of a conducting ideal fluid in a strong electric field is considered. It is found that the nonlinear equations of two-dimensional fluid motion can be solved in the small-angle approximation.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. M. Zubarev

We consider a fluid-structure interaction problem involving a viscous, incompressible fluid flow, modeled by the 2D Navier-Stokes equations, through a thin deformable elastic tube, displacement of which is not known a priori. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Krutika Tawri , Nash Ward

The nonlinear dynamics of the free surface of an ideal conducting liquid in a strong external electric field is studied. It is establish that the equations of motion for such a liquid can be solved in the approximation in which the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. Zubarev

We consider solutions to the Euler equations in the whole space from a certain class, which can be characterized, in particular, by finiteness of mass, total energy and momentum. We prove that for a large class of right-hand sides,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-04 Olga Rozanova

The search of finite-time singularity solutions of Euler equations is considered for the case of an incompressible and inviscid fluid. Under the assumption that a finite-time blow-up solution may be spatially anisotropic as time goes by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-07 Sergio Rica

A new simulation method for solving fluid-structure coupling problems has been developed. All the basic equations are numerically solved on a fixed Cartesian grid using a finite difference scheme. A volume-of-fluid formulation (Hirt and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kazuyasu Sugiyama , Satoshi Ii , Shintaro Takeuchi , Shu Takagi , Yoichiro Matsumoto

Presented are two results on the formation of finite time singularities of solutions to the compressible Euler equations in two and three space dimensions for isentropic, polytropic, ideal fluid flows. The initial velocity is assumed to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-23 Zhen Lei , Yi Du , Qingtian Zhang

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

In this work a finite element simulation of the motion of a rigid body in a fluid, with free surface, is described. A completely general referential description (of which both Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions are special cases) of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. J. Childs , B. D. Reddy

We prove that there are stationary solutions to the 2D incompressible free boundary Euler equations with two fluids, possibly with a small gravity constant, that feature a splash singularity. More precisely, in the solutions we construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Diego Cordoba , Alberto Enciso , Nastasia Grubic

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

We study the singularity formation of smooth solutions of the relativistic Euler equations in $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetime for both finite initial energy and infinite initial energy. For the finite initial energy case, we prove that any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ronghua Pan , Joel A. Smoller

It has been known since work of Lichtenstein [42] and Gunther [29] in the 1920's that the $3D$ incompressible Euler equation is locally well-posed in the class of velocity fields with H\"older continuous gradient and suitable decay at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Tarek M. Elgindi