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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 study $C^1$ blow-up of the compressible fluid model introduced by Gardner and Morikawa, which describes the dynamics of a magnetized cold plasma. We propose sufficient conditions that lead to $C^1$ blow-up. In particular, we find that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Junsik Bae , Junho Choi , Bongsuk Kwon

The 2D conservative Boussinesq system describes inviscid, incompressible, buoyant fluid flow in gravity field. The possibility of finite time blow up for solutions of this system is a classical problem of mathematical hydrodynamics. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Kyudong Choi , Alexander Kiselev , Yao Yao

We consider a class of Fokker--Planck equations with linear diffusion and superlinear drift enjoying a formal Wasserstein-like gradient flow structure with convex mobility function. In the drift-dominant regime, the equations have a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 José A. Carrillo , Katharina Hopf , José L. Rodrigo

We study the formation of singularities for the Euler-Alignment system with influence function $\psi=\frac{k_\alpha}{|x|^\alpha}$ in 1D. As in [20] the problem is reduced to the analysis of a nonlocal 1D equation. We show the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Victor Arnaiz , Ángel Castro

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

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 article we consider the inhomogeneous incompressible Euler equations describing two fluids with different constant densities under the influence of gravity as a differential inclusion. By considering the relaxation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Björn Gebhard , József J. Kolumbán , László Székelyhidi

We consider the two dimensional unsteady Prandtl system. For a special class of outer Euler flows and solutions of the Prandtl system, the trace of the tangential derivative of the tangential velocity along the transversal axis solves a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Charles Collot , Tej-Eddine Ghoul , Slim Ibrahim , Nader Masmoudi

We study a 1D fluid mechanics model with nonlocal velocity. The equation can be viewed as a fractional porous medium flow, a 1D model of the quasi-geostrophic equation, and also a special case of Euler-Alignment system. For strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Changhui Tan

In this paper, we construct solutions of Lagrangian mean curvature flow which exist and are embedded for all time, but form an infinite-time singularity and converge to an immersed special Lagrangian as $t\to\infty$. In particular, the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Wei-Bo Su , Chung-Jun Tsai , Albert Wood

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

This paper establishes the nonlinear stability of the Couette flow for the 2D Boussinesq equations with only vertical dissipation. The Boussinesq equations concerned here model buoyancy-driven fluids such as atmospheric and oceanographic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Wen Deng , Jiahong Wu , Ping Zhang

The travelling wave problem for a particular bidirectional Whitham system modelling surface water waves is under consideration. This system firstly appeared in [Dinvay, Dutykh, Kalisch 2018], where it was numerically shown to be stable and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Evgueni Dinvay , Dag Nilsson

We consider the 3D incompressible Euler equations in vorticity form in the following fundamental domain for the octahedral symmetry group: $\{ (x_1,x_2,x_3): 0<x_3<x_2<x_1 \}.$ In this domain, we prove local well-posedness for $C^\alpha$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

We study the stability of special, stratified solutions of a 3d Boussinesq system describing an incompressible, inviscid 3d fluid with variable density (or temperature, depending on the context) under the effect of a uni-directional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Klaus Widmayer

The mechanism for singularity formation in an inviscid wall-bounded fluid flow is investigated. The incompressible Euler equations are numerically simulated in a cylindrical container. The flow is axisymmetric with swirl. The simulations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-27 Dwight Barkley

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

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 article concludes the study of (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear wave equations that can be derived in a model of an ideal fluid with irrotational motion. In the considered case of identical scaling of the $x,y$ variables, obtaining a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-21 Piotr Rozmej , Anna Karczewska