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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 the interaction between the stability, and the propagation of regularity, for solutions to the incompressible 3D Euler equation. It is still unknown whether a solution with smooth initial data can develop a singularity in finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Alexis Vasseur , Misha Vishik

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

We prove that the 3-D free-surface incompressible Euler equations with regular initial geometries and velocity fields have solutions which can form a finite-time "splash" (or "splat") singularity first introduced in [9], wherein the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Daniel Coutand , Steve Shkoller

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

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

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 question of spontaneous apparition of singularity in the 3D incompressible Euler equations is one of the most important and challenging open problems in mathematical fluid mechanics. In this survey article we review some of recent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dongho Chae

We establish the existence of a stable family of solutions to the Euler equations on Kasner backgrounds near the singularity with the full expected asymptotic data degrees of freedom and no symmetry or isotropy restrictions. Existence is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Florian Beyer , Todd A. Oliynyk

Whether the 3D incompressible Euler equations can develop a finite time singularity from smooth initial data is one of the most challenging problems in nonlinear PDEs. In this paper, we present some new numerical evidence that the 3D…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Thomas Y. Hou

We introduce a notion of stability for non-autonomous Hamiltonian flows on two-dimensional annular surfaces. This notion of stability is designed to capture the sustained twisting of particle trajectories. The main Theorem is applied to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Theodore D. Drivas , Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

We examine the blow-up claims of the incompressible Euler equations for several specific flow-fields, (1) the columnar eddies in the vicinity of stagnation; (2) a quasi-three-dimensional structure for illustrating oscillations and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-16 F. Lam

We establish the existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions with large vorticity and weak solutions with vortex sheets/entropy waves for the steady Euler equations for both compressible and incompressible fluids in arbitrary infinitely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Fei-Min Huang , Tian-Yi Wang , Wei Xiang

We study the Cauchy problem for the $3D$ compressible Euler equations under an arbitrary equation of state with positive speed of sound, aside from that of a Chaplygin gas. For open sets of smooth initial data with non-trivial vorticity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Leo Abbrescia , Jared Speck

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

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

In this paper we discuss the existence of stationary incompressible fluids with splash singularities. Specifically, we show that there are stationary solutions to the Euler equations with two fluids whose interfaces are arbitrarily close to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Diego Córdoba , Alberto Enciso , Nastasia Grubic

A class of semi-bounded solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations satisfying either periodic or Dirichlet boundary conditions is examined. For smooth initial data, new blowup criteria in terms of the initial concavity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Alejandro Sarria

Recent work introduced a robust computational framework combining embedded mathematical structures, advanced optimization, and neural network architecture, leading to the discovery of multiple unstable self-similar solutions for key fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Yongji Wang , Tristan Léger , Ching-Yao Lai , Tristan Buckmaster

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
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