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Vanishing viscosity non-unique solutions to the forced 2D Euler Equations

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-28 v1

Abstract

The forced 2D Euler equations exhibit non-unique solutions with vorticity in LpL^p, p>1p > 1, whereas the corresponding Navier-Stokes solutions are unique. We investigate whether the inviscid limit ν0+\nu \to 0^+ from the forced 2D Navier-Stokes to Euler equations is a selection principle capable of "resolving" the non-uniqueness. We focus on solutions in a neighborhood of the non-uniqueness scenario discovered by Vishik; specifically, we incorporate viscosity ν\nu and consider O(ε)O(\varepsilon) size perturbations of the initial datum. We discover a uniqueness threshold ενκc\varepsilon \sim \nu^{\kappa_{\rm c}}, below which the vanishing viscosity solution is unique and radial, and at which there are viscous solutions converging to non-unique, non-radial solutions.

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@article{arxiv.2507.19257,
  title  = {Vanishing viscosity non-unique solutions to the forced 2D Euler Equations},
  author = {Dallas Albritton and Maria Colombo and Giulia Mescolini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19257},
  year   = {2025}
}

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56 pages, 3 figures

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