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We establish the existence and uniqueness of the transonic shock solution for steady isentropic Euler system with an external force in a rectangular cylinder under the three-dimensional perturbations for the incoming supersonic flow, the…

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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

We study the singularity formation of a quasi-exact 1D model proposed by Hou-Li in \cite{hou2008dynamic}. This model is based on an approximation of the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations in the $r$ direction. The solution of the 1D model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Thomas Y. Hou , Yixuan Wang

Guderley's 1942 work on radial shock waves provides cases of self-similar Euler flows exhibiting blowup of primary (undifferentiated) flow variables: a converging shock wave invades a quiescent region, and the velocity and pressure in its…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-23 Helge Kristian Jenssen , Charis Tsikkou

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 construct unstable shocks in the context of 2D isentropic compressible Euler in azimuthal symmetry. More specifically, we construct initial data that when viewed in self-similar coordinates, converges asymptotically to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Tristan Buckmaster , Sameer Iyer

In this paper we investigate analytically the formation of finite time singularities in the three dimensional incompressible Euler equations under the model of Gibbon, Fokas, and Doering for vorticity stretching within a bounded cylindrical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Yinshen Xu , Miguel D. Bustamante

This paper concerns the existence and location of three-dimensional axisymmetric transonic shocks with large swirl velocity for shock solutions of the steady compressible full Euler system in a cylindrical nozzle with prescribed receiver…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Beixiang Fang , Xin Gao , Wei Xiang , Qin Zhao

Motivated by the work on stagnation-point type exact solutions (with infinite energy) of 3D Euler fluid equations by Gibbon et al. (1999) and the subsequent demonstration of finite-time blowup by Constantin (2006) we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-15 Rachel M. Mulungye , Dan Lucas , Miguel D. Bustamante

This work is a companion to [EJE1] and its purpose is threefold: first, we will establish local well-posedness for the axi-symmetric $3D$ Euler equation in the domains $\{(x_1,x_2,x_3) \in \mathbb{R}^3 : x_3^2 \le \mathfrak{c}(x_1^2 +…

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

For any $\alpha \in (0,1/3)$, we construct exact $C^{\alpha}$ self-similar blowup profiles for the vorticity of the 3D incompressible Euler equation without swirl, and build on them to prove asymptotically self-similar blowup from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Jiajie Chen

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

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

In the mathematical physics literature, there are heuristic arguments, going back three decades, suggesting that for an open set of initially smooth solutions to the Einstein-vacuum equations in high dimensions, stable, approximately…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Igor Rodnianski , Jared Speck

We investigate the axisymmetric incompressible Euler equations without swirl in $\mathbb R^d$ with $d\geq 3$. For any $\alpha\in(0, \alpha_d)$, where $\alpha_d=1-2/d$, we construct a self-similar blow-up solution whose initial velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Feng Shao , Dongyi Wei , Ping Zhang , Zhifei Zhang

In this paper, we will show the blow-up of smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem for the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations and isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with constant and degenerate viscosities in arbitrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Quansen Jiu , Yuexun Wang , Zhouping Xin

The question of the global regularity vs finite time blow up in solutions of the 3D incompressible Euler equation is a major open problem of modern applied analysis. In this paper, we study a class of one-dimensional models of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Tam Do , Alexander Kiselev , Xiaoqian Xu

We consider a one-parameter family of 1D models for the 3D axisymmetric incompressible Euler equation with $C^{\alpha}$ vorticity and without swirl near the symmetry axis. For $\alpha = \frac13$, we impose a crucial normalization and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Jiajie Chen

We prove a definitive theorem on the asymptotic stability of point vortex solutions to the full Euler equation in 2 dimensions. More precisely, we show that a small, Gevrey smooth, and compactly supported perturbation of a point vortex…

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