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48 points · 7 comments · chaostaco

  1. Kotlopou · · focus · HN ↗
    This is pretty, but none of those visualisations look very... singular to me? Can anyone tell me where to look in those simulations to see the blowup? Does speed go infinite in some region (which one? the blue or orange part?), or just non-smooth?
    1. eig · · focus · HN ↗
      “ This is not the smoothness problem solution, but rather the Burgers vortex, an exact solution of the Navier–Stokes equations published by J. M. Burgers in 1948, chosen because it has the same anatomy: fluid drawn inward in a plane, stretched along the axis and thrown out of both ends, spinning fastest in a core.”
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