Potentially singular solutions of the 3D axisymmetric Euler equations

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1405238111zbMATH Open1431.35115arXiv1310.0497OpenAlexW2038604285WikidataQ34583578 ScholiaQ34583578MaRDI QIDQ5218481FDOQ5218481

Authors: Guo Luo, Thomas Y. Hou 

Publication date: 4 March 2020

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Whether the 3D incompressible Euler equations can develop a singularity in finite time from smooth initial data is one of the most challenging problems in mathematical fluid dynamics. This work attempts to provide an affirmative answer to this long-standing open question from a numerical point of view, by presenting a class of potentially singular solutions to the Euler equations computed in axisymmetric geometries. The solutions satisfy a periodic boundary condition along the axial direction and no-flow boundary condition on the solid wall. The equations are discretized in space using a hybrid 6th-order Galerkin and 6th-order finite difference method, on specially designed adaptive (moving) meshes that are dynamically adjusted to the evolving solutions. With a maximum effective resolution of over $(3imes10^{12}{)}^2$ near the point of the singularity, we are able to advance the solution up to $a{u}_2=0.003505$ and predict a singularity time of $t_{s}approx0.0035056$, while achieving a emph{pointwise} relative error of $O(10^{-4})$ in the vorticity vector $omega$ and observing a $(3imes10^8)$-fold increase in the maximum vorticity $|omega{|}_{infty}$. The numerical data are checked against all major blowup (non-blowup) criteria, including Beale-Kato-Majda, Constantin-Fefferman-Majda, and Deng-Hou-Yu, to confirm the validity of the singularity. A local analysis near the point of the singularity also suggests the existence of a self-similar blowup in the meridian plane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0497

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03) Axially symmetric solutions to PDEs (35B07) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Euler equations (35Q31)

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