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We study the formation of singularity for the Euler-Poisson system equipped with the Boltzmann relation, which describes the dynamics of ions in an electrostatic plasma. In general, it is known that smooth solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Junsik Bae , Junho Choi , Bongsuk Kwon

Recent studies suggest that unstable, non-chaotic solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation may provide deep insights into fluid turbulence. In this article, we present a combined experimental and numerical study exploring the dynamical role…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 Balachandra Suri , Jeffrey Tithof , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

In this paper, we present strong numerical evidences that the incompressible axisymmetric Euler equations with degenerate viscosity coefficients and smooth initial data of finite energy develop a potential finite-time locally self-similar…

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

Solutions of the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations with initial conditions for 2D and 3D cases were obtained in the form of converging series, by an analytical iterative method using Fourier and Laplace transforms \cite{TT10,TT11}. There…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-22 A. Tsionskiy , M. Tsionskiy

We study blow-up rates and the blow-up profiles of possible asymptotically self-similar singularities of the 3D Euler equations, where the sense of convergence and self-similarity are considered in various sense. We extend much further, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Dongho Chae

We establish the first complete classification of finite-time blow-up scenarios for strong solutions to the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations with surface tension in a bounded domain possessing a closed, moving free boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Chengchun Hao , Tao Luo , Siqi Yang

For the nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt} - c(u)\big(c(u) u_x\big)_x~=~0$, it is well known that solutions can develop singularities in finite time. For an open dense set of initial data, the present paper provides a detailed asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Alberto Bressan , Tao Huang , Fang Yu

We consider the isentropic compressible Euler equations in the half-line which govern the motion of gaseous fluids in contact with stationary vacuum boundary. We construct a large class of solutions that are initially smooth and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Juhi Jang , Jiaqi Liu , Nader Masmoudi

Understanding complexity in fluid mechanics is a major problem that has attracted the attention of physicists and mathematicians during the last decades. Using the concept of renormalization in dynamics, we show the existence of a locally…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Pierre Berger , Anna Florio , Daniel Peralta-Salas

We show uniqueness and stability in $L^2$ and for all time for piecewise-smooth solutions to hyperbolic balance laws. We have in mind applications to gas dynamics, the isentropic Euler system and the full Euler system for a polytropic gas…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Sam G. Krupa

Two-dimensional free-surface flow over localised topography is examined with the emphasis on the stability of hydraulic-fall solutions. A Gaussian topography profile is assumed with a positive or negative amplitude modelling a bump or a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jack S. Keeler , Mark G. Blyth

Fractional Navier-Stokes equations -- featuring a fractional Laplacian -- provide a `bridge' between the Euler equations (zero diffusion) and the Navier-Stokes equations (full diffusion). The problem of whether an initially smooth flow can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Jiayi Wang

Exact solutions of a classical problem of a plane unsteady potential flow of an ideal incompressible fluid with a free boundary are presented. The fluid occupies a semi-infinite strip bounded by the free surface (from above) and (from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-13 Evgenii A. Karabut , Elena N. Zhuravleva , Nikolay M. Zubarev , Olga V. Zubareva

Building on an approach introduced by Golovkin in the '60s, we show that nonuniqueness in some forced PDEs is a direct consequence of the existence of a self-similar linearly unstable eigenvalue: the key point is a clever choice of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Michele Dolce , Giulia Mescolini

A recent prominent result asserts that steady incompressible Euler flows strictly away from stagnation in a two-dimensional infinitely long strip must be shear flows. On the other hand, flows with stagnation points, very challenging in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Congming Li , Yingshu Lv , Henrik Shahgholian , Chunjing Xie

Euler's equations govern the behavior of gravity waves on the surface of an incompressible, inviscid, and irrotational fluid of arbitrary depth. We investigate the spectral stability of sufficiently small-amplitude, one-dimensional Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ryan Creedon , Bernard Deconinck , Olga Trichtchenko

This review article offers a survey of the research program focused on a systematic computational search for extreme and potentially singular behavior in hydrodynamic models motivated by open questions concerning the possibility of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Bartosz Protas

The 2d Boussinesq equations model large scale atmospheric and oceanic flows. Whether its solutions develop a singularity in finite-time remains a classical open problem in mathematical fluid dynamics. In this work, blowup from smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Alejandro Sarria , Jiahong Wu

A new rescaling of the vorticity moments and their growth terms is used to characterise the evolution of anti-parallel vortices governed by the 3D Euler equations. To suppress unphysical instabilities, the initial condition uses a balanced…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-06 Robert M. Kerr

Nonlinear partial differential equations are central to physics, engineering, and finance. Except in a limited number of integrable cases, their solution generally requires numerical methods whose cost becomes prohibitive in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-30 Javier Gonzalez-Conde , Daniel Isla , Sergiy Zhuk , Mikel Sanz