Blowup or no blowup? The interplay between theory and numerics

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 237, Issue 14-17, 2008, Pages 1937-1944

  Hou, Thomas Y ^a   Li, Ruo ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3D Euler equations; Finite time singularities; Spectral methods

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; EULER EQUATIONS;

3D EULER EQUATION; FINITE TIME BLOW-UP; FINITE TIME SINGULARITY; GEOMETRIC REGULARITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS; LARGE SCALE COMPUTATION; SOLUTION STRUCTURES; SPECTRAL METHODS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 47049115354     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2008.01.018     Document Type: Article

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