3D incompressible fluids: combinatorial models, eigenspace models, and a conjecture about well-posedness of the 3D zero viscosity limit (Q2509562)

The author uses the powerful tools of the algebraic topology to somewhat open up the structure of the nonlinear term: in fact, some combinatorial models and eigenspace models with regard for nonlinear structures. These theoretical speculations are applied to incompressible fluid motion in the zero viscosity limit in the 3-dimensional space. The nonlinear structure is given by a Lie bracket which appear in the evolution partial differential equations of fluids. This equation states that the vorticity of the fluid motion is transported by the motion of the fluid. It is possible to apply the theoretical results in the concret case of fluid because the author uses the advantage of a special duality property of the cubical partitions of the 3-dimensional space. In order to uses the powerful tools of algebraic topology it is necessary to embed vector fields on a smooth manifold into the chain complex of multivector fields with natural monomial grading. The paper ends with a conjecture about well-posedness of an incompressible fluid motion with zero or positive viscosity.