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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 study the Cauchy problem for the compressible Euler equations in two spatial dimensions under any physical barotropic equation of state except that of a Chaplygin gas. We prove that the well-known phenomenon of shock formation in simple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Jonathan Luk , Jared Speck

Solutions to the compressible Euler equations in all dimensions have been shown to develop finite-time singularities from smooth initial data such as shocks and cusps. There is an extraordinary list of results on this subject. When the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jiahong Wu , Fuyi Xu , Xiaoping Zhai

We study the singularity formation of smooth solutions of the relativistic Euler equations in $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetime for both finite initial energy and infinite initial energy. For the finite initial energy case, we prove that any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ronghua Pan , Joel A. Smoller

Fluid configurations in three-dimensions, displaying a plausible decay of regularity in a finite time, are suitably built and examined. Vortex rings are the primary ingredients in this study. The full Navier-Stokes system is converted into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Daniele Funaro

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

In connection with the recent proposal for possible singularity formation at the boundary for solutions of 3d axi-symmetric incompressible Euler's equations (Luo and Hou, 2013), we study models for the dynamics at the boundary and show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Kyudong Choi , Thomas Y. Hou , Alexander Kiselev , Guo Luo , Vladimir Sverak , Yao Yao

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

How predictable are turbulent flows? Here we use theoretical estimates and shell model simulations to argue that Eulerian spontaneous stochasticity, a manifestation of the non-uniqueness of the solutions to the Euler equation that is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-20 Dmytro Bandak , Alexei Mailybaev , Gregory L. Eyink , Nigel Goldenfeld

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

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 revisit, both numerically and analytically, the finite-time blowup of the infinite-energy solution of 3D Euler equations of stagnation-point-type introduced by Gibbon et al. (1999). By employing the method of mapping to regular systems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-20 Rachel M. Mulungye , Dan Lucas , Miguel D. Bustamante

We consider a steady state $v_{0}$ of the Euler equation in a fixed bounded domain in $\mathbf{R}^{n}$. Suppose the linearized Euler equation has an exponential dichotomy of unstable and center-stable subspaces. By rewriting the Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-21 Zhiwu Lin , Chongchun Zeng

This paper deals with the longstanding quest of the possible existence of finite-time singularities in the equations governing the dynamics of inviscid fluids, namely, Euler equations. Here, two contributions are brought for the case of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Mokhtar Adda-Bedia , Sergio Rica

This is Part II of our paper in which we prove finite time blowup of the 2D Boussinesq and 3D axisymmetric Euler equations with smooth initial data of finite energy and boundary. In Part I of our paper [ChenHou2023a], we establish an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Jiajie Chen , Thomas Y. Hou

The existence and dynamical role of particular unstable Navier-Stokes solutions (exact coherent structures) is revealed in laboratory studies of weak turbulence in a thin, electromagnetically-driven fluid layer. We find that the dynamics…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Balachandra Suri , Jeffrey Tithof , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

A detailed study of complex-space singularities of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equation is performed in the short-time asymptotic r\'egime when such singularities are very far from the real domain; this allows an exact…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Pauls , T. Matsumoto , U. Frisch , J. Bec

The question of whether a singularity can form in an initially regular flow, described by the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations, is a fundamental problem in mathematical physics. The NS regularity problem is super-critical,…

In finite-dimensional dynamical systems, stochastic stability provides the selection of physical relevant measures from the myriad invariant measures of conservative systems. That this might also apply to infinite-dimensional systems is the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-12 F. Cipriano , H. Ouerdiane , R. Vilela Mendes

Recently neutral and charged black-hole solutions were found for static perfect fluid with the equation of state $p(r)=-\rho(r)/3$, for fluid only as well as for fluid in the presence of electric field. In those works, the stability of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Inyong Cho , Dong-Ho Park