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 , , whereas the corresponding Navier-Stokes solutions are unique. We investigate whether the inviscid limit 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 and consider size perturbations of the initial datum. We discover a uniqueness threshold , below which the vanishing viscosity solution is unique and radial, and at which there are viscous solutions converging to non-unique, non-radial solutions.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
56 pages, 3 figures