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The 2D Euler system, which governs inviscid incompressible fluid flow, can admit infinitely many steady solutions in a given domain with slip boundary conditions. To select physical classical solutions, we investigate the vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Changfeng Gui , Chunjing Xie , Huan Xu

The duality between deformations of elastic bodies and non-inertial flows in viscous liquids has been a guiding principle in decades of research. However, this duality is broken when a spheroidal or other doubly-curved liquid film is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-20 Benny Davidovitch , Avraham Klein

We present experiments on the instability and fragmentation of volumes of heavier liquid released into lighter immiscible liquids. We focus on the regime defined by small Ohnesorge numbers, density ratios of order one, and variable Weber…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-30 Maylis Landeau , Renaud Deguen , Peter Olson

We investigate the Couette-Taylor problem for a steady incompressible viscous fluid in a 3D cylindrical annulus, where one of the two cylinders is still, under both Dirichlet and boundary conditions involving the vorticity that naturally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Edoardo Bocchi , Filippo Gazzola , Antonio Hidalgo-Torné

We consider rigidity properties of steady Euler flows in two-dimensional bounded domains. We prove that steady Euler flows in a disk with exactly one interior stagnation point and tangential boundary conditions must be circular flows, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Yuchen Wang , Weicheng Zhan

We study the formation of steady waves in two-dimensional fluids under a current with mean velocity $c$ flowing over a periodic bottom. Using a formulation based on the Dirichlet-Neumann operator, we establish the unique continuation of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Walter Craig , Carlos García-Azpeitia

We present a continuum level analytical model of a droplet of active contractile fluid consisting of filaments and motors. We calculate the steady state flows that result from a splayed polarisation of the filaments. We account for the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2014-02-20 Carl A. Whitfield , Davide Marenduzzo , Raphaël Voituriez , Rhoda J. Hawkins

The motion of several plates in an inviscid and incompressible fluid is studied numerically using a vortex sheet model. Two to four plates are initially placed in-line, separated by a specified distance, and actuated in the vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Monika Nitsche , Anand U. Oza , Michael Siegel

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

Static spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Euler equations with prescribed central densities are known to exist, be unique and smooth for reasonable equations of state. Some criteria are also available to decide whether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-01 Lars Andersson , Annegret Y. Burtscher

This paper presents a streamfunction-vorticity formulation for the Navier--Stokes and Euler equations on general surfaces. Notably, this includes non-simply connected surfaces, on which the harmonic components of the velocity field play a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Tim Brüers , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Max Wardetzky

We investigate the effect of inertial particles on Rayleigh-B\'enard convection using weakly nonlinear stability analysis. In the presence of nonlinear effects, we study the limiting value of growth of instabilities by deriving a cubic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-20 Thota Srinivas , Gaurav Tomar

In this paper, we study desingularization of steady solutions of 3D incompressible Euler equation with helical symmetry in a general helical domain. We construct a family of steady Euler flows with helical symmetry, such that the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Daomin Cao , Jie Wan

The spreading of a cap-shaped spherical droplet of non-Newtonian power-law liquids on a flat and a spherical rough and textured substrate is theoretically studied in the capillary-controlled spreading regime. A droplet whose scale is much…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-22 Masao Iwamatsu

The conditions in which meridional recirculations appear in swirling flows above a fixed wall are analysed. In the classical Bodew\"adt problem, where the swirl tends towards an aysmptotic value away from the wall, the well-known "tea-cup…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-24 A. Pothérat , F. Rubiconi , Y. Charles , V. Dousset

An effort has been made to solve the Cauchy problem of the Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space by two methods. It is proved that the sum of the three vorticity components is a time-invariant in fluid motion. It has been proved that,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-18 F. Lam

This paper proposes a new general methodology for finite-time singularity formation for moving interface problems involving the incompressible Euler equations in the plane. The first problem considered is the two-phase Euler vortex sheets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Daniel Coutand

The two-dimensional ideal fluid and the plasma confined by a strong magnetic field exhibit an intrinsic tendency to organization due to the inverse spectral cascade. In the asymptotic states reached at relaxation the turbulence has vanished…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 F. Spineanu , M. Vlad

We develop new variational principles to study stability and equilibrium of axisymmetric flows. We show that there is an infinite number of steady state solutions. We show that these steady states maximize a (non-universal) $H$-function. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Leprovost , Bérengère Dubrulle , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

In this paper, we study the steady solutions of Euler-Poisson equations in bounded domains with prescribed angular velocity. This models a rotating Newtonian star consisting of a compressible perfect fluid with given equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tao Luo , Joel Smoller