Manchester Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Seminars

Winter 2000/01

October 18, 2000, 2.30 pm

Lecture Theatre OF/B9 Oddfellows Hall (Material Science)

On the Hydrodynamic Blowup Problem

Prof. Richard B. Pelz
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, USA
(currently at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge)

Whether all smooth, 3-D, divergence-free, fluid flows remain smooth for all time under the Navier-Stokes or Euler equations is a fundamental open question in mathematical fluid mechanics. In this talk, possible counter-examples, unforced flows in which quantities such as vorticity become singular in finite time, will be presented.

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