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In an earlier work we have shown the global (for all initial data and all time) well-posedness of strong solutions to the three-dimensional viscous primitive equations of large scale oceanic and atmospheric dynamics. In this paper we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Chongsheng Cao , Slim Ibrahim , Kenji Nakanishi , Edriss S. Titi

This paper addresses the construction and the stability of self-similar solutions to the isentropic compressible Euler equations. These solutions model a gas that implodes isotropically, ending in a singularity formation in finite time. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Anxo Biasi

In his 2007 monograph, D. Christodoulou proved a breakthrough result giving a detailed description of the formation of shocks in solutions to the relativistic Euler equations in three spatial dimensions. He assumed that the data have small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Jared Speck

The existence and uniqueness of weak solutions is shown for a system related to the Willis model of elastodynamics. Both the whole space case and the case of a bounded smooth domain are studied. To this end the equations are reformulated as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Thomas Blesgen , Patrizio Neff

We consider the compressible three dimensional Navier Stokes and Euler equations. In a suitable regime of barotropic laws, we construct a set of finite energy smooth initial data for which the corresponding solutions to both equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Frank Merle , Pierre Raphael , Igor Rodnianski , Jeremie Szeftel

In this paper, we consider the compressible Euler equations with time-dependent damping \frac{\a}{(1+t)^\lambda}u in one space dimension. By constructing 'decoupled' Riccati type equations for smooth solutions, we provide some sufficient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Ying Sui , Huimin Yu

We prove that for large enough data, the life span of smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem for the following two quasilinear hyperbolic systems is finite: (1) equations of relativistic compressible fluid dynamics, (2) equations of plasma…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yan Guo , A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

In this paper, we study the singularity formation phenomenon of the 1D model of Electron Magnetohydrodynamics (EMHD). we will construct a solution whose $C^3$-norm blows up in finite time. In the end, we will show that the solution is in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Chao Wu

In this paper we study the compressible magnetohydrodynamics equations in three dimensions, which offer a good model for plasmas. Formation of singularity for C1-solution in finite time is proved with axisymmetric initial data. The key…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Lv Cai , Ning-An Lai

We demonstrate finite-time blow-up in a simple, realistic shell model of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations, equipped with "smooth" (i.e., rapidly decaying in frequency) initial data and forcing. Previously studied models either exhibit a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Stan Palasek

In this paper, we prove the existence of smooth initial data for the 2D free boundary incompressible Euler equations (also known for some particular scenarios as the water wave problem), for which the smoothness of the interface breaks down…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Javier Gómez-Serrano

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

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…

We prove that one cannot construct, for arbitrary initial data, global-in-time physical classical solutions to Euler's equations of continuum rigid body mechanics when the constituent rigid bodies are not perfect spheres. By 'physical'…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Mark Wilkinson

In this paper, we define the rarefaction and compression characters for the supersonic expanding wave of the compressible Euler equations with radial symmetry. Under this new definition, we show that solutions with rarefaction initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Geng Chen , Faris A. El-Katri , Yanbo Hu , Yannan Shen

In this paper, we consider the singularity formation of smooth solutions for the compressible radially symmetric Euler equations. By applying the characteristic method and the invariant domain idea, we show that, for polytropic ideal gases…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Geng Chen , Faris A. El-Katri , Yanbo Hu , Yannan Shen

This paper investigates a novel mechanism for quasi-singularity formation in both linear and nonlinear hyperbolic wave equations in two and three dimensions. We prove that over any finite time interval, there exist inputs such that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Huaian Diao , Xieling Fan , Hongyu Liu

We consider equations of the type: \[\partial_t \omega = \omega R(\omega),\] for general linear operators $R$ in any spatial dimension. We prove that such equations almost always exhibit finite-time singularities for smooth and localized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Roberta Bianchini , Tarek M. Elgindi

We prove the existence of global in time, finite energy, weak solutions to a quantum magnetohydrodynamic system (QMHD) with large data, modeling a charged quantum fluid interacting with a self-generated electromagnetic field. The analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Raffaele Scandone

We establish finite-time singularity formation for $C^{1,\alpha}$ solutions to the Boussinesq system that are compactly supported on $\mathbb{R}^2$ and infinitely smooth except in the radial direction at the origin. The solutions are smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Tarek M. Elgindi , Federico Pasqualotto