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The primitive equations (PEs) model planetary large-scale oceanic and atmospheric dynamics. While it has been shown that there are smooth solutions to the inviscid PEs (also called the hydrostatic Euler equations) with constant temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Slim Ibrahim , Quyuan Lin , Lingjun Qian , Edriss S. Titi

We show that the question about the criterion of a singularity formation for radially symmetric solutions to the Cauchy problem for a fairly wide class of equations related to the pressureless Euler-Poisson equations can be reduced to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Olga S. Rozanova , Marko K. Turzynsky

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

The primitive equations (PEs) model large scale dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere. While it is by now well-known that the three-dimensional viscous PEs is globally well-posed in Sobolev spaces, and that there are solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Charles Collot , Slim Ibrahim , Quyuan Lin

The main concern of this paper is to study large-time behavior of the sheath to the full Euler-Poisson system. As is well known, the monotone stationary solution under the Bohm criterion can be referred to as the sheath which is formed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Yao Lei , Yin Haiyan , Zhu Mengmeng

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

In this paper, the singularity formation of classical solutions for the compressible Euler equations with general pressure law is considered. The gradient blow-up of classical solutions is shown without any smallness assumption by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-17 Hualin Zheng

We establish a new a priori estimate on solutions to the space-inhomogeneous Landau and Boltzmann equations. As a consequence, we prove a new continuation criterion, based on a weighted $L^\infty$-norm, without requiring bounds on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 William Golding , Christopher Henderson , Luis Silvestre

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

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

We prove shock formation for 3D Euler-Poisson system for electron fluid plasma. The shock solution we construct is of large initial data, also compactly supported during the lifespan. In addition, the blowup time and location can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Yiya Qiu , Lifeng Zhao

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…

This paper contributes to the study of large data problems for $C^1$ solutions of the relativistic Euler equations. In the $(1+1)$-dimensional spacetime setting, if the initial data are away from vacuum, a key difficulty in proving the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Nikolaos Athanasiou , Shengguo Zhu

Whether the 3D incompressible Euler equations can develop a singularity in finite time from smooth initial data is one of the most challenging problems in mathematical fluid dynamics. This work attempts to provide an affirmative answer to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Guo Luo , Thomas Y. Hou

It is still not known whether a solution to the incompressible Euler equation, endowed with a smooth initial value, can blow-up in finite time. In [{\em Comm. Math. Phys.}, 378:557--568, 2020] it has been shown that, if it exists, such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Laurent Lafleche , Alexis F. Vasseur , Misha Vishik

It is proved that the radially symmetric solutions of the repulsive Euler-Poisson equations with a non-zero background, corresponding to cold plasma oscillations blow up in many spatial dimensions except for $\bd=4$ for almost all initial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Olga S. Rozanova

In this paper we consider the Euler-Poisson system (describing a plasma made of ions with a negligible ion temperature) on the Sobolev spaces $H^s(\R^3)$, $s > 5/2$. Using a geometric approach we show that for any time $T > 0$ the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Hasan Inci

Singularity formation of the 3D incompressible Euler equations is known to be extremely challenging. In [18], Elgindi proved that the 3D axisymmetric Euler equations with no swirl and $C^{1,\alpha}$ initial velocity develops a finite time…

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

An important physical model describing the dynamics of dilute weakly ionized plasmas in the collisional kinetic theory is the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system for which the plasma responds strongly to the self-consistent electrostatic force.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Renjun Duan , Tong Yang , Huijiang Zhao

We employ granular hydrodynamics to investigate a paradigmatic problem of clustering of particles in a freely cooling dilute granular gas. We consider large-scale hydrodynamic motions where the viscosity and heat conduction can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Itzhak Fouxon , Baruch Meerson , Michael Assaf , Eli Livne