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Blow-up, partial regularity and turbulence in incompressible fluid dynamics

Haffter, Silja Noëmi Aline  
2022

Weak solutions arise naturally in the study of the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations both from an abstract regularity/blow-up perspective and from physical theories of turbulence. This thesis studies the structure and size of singular set of such weak solutions to equations of incompressible fluid dynamics from two opposite directions. First, it aims to single-out new mechanisms which allow to break the typically supercritical scaling of the equations and, in this way, prevent the formation of singularities either globally or locally in spacetime. Second, in the absence of such mechanisms, we seek to quantify how singular (in terms of dimension of the singular set, for instance) the solutions that we are actually able to construct are.

This thesis collects four results pointing in the two directions outlined above which have been obtained in several collaborations during the Ph.D. studies:
- a global regularity result for the fractional Navier-Stokes equation slightly blow the critical fractional order,
- a global well-posedness result for the defocusing wave equation with slightly supercritical power nonlinearity,
- an a.e. smoothness / partial regularity result for the supercritical surface quasigeostrophic (SQG) equation,
- an estimate (and a discussion of its sharpness) on the dimension of the singular set of wild Hölder continuous solutions of the incompressible Euler equations.

All results presented in the thesis have either been published or are submitted for publication.

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Type
doctoral thesis
DOI
10.5075/epfl-thesis-9815
Author(s)
Haffter, Silja Noëmi Aline  
Advisors
Colombo, Maria  
Jury

Prof. Fabio Nobile (président) ; Prof. Maria Colombo (directeur de thèse) ; Prof. Joachim Krieger, Prof. Alexis F. Vasseur, Prof. Wojciech Ozanski (rapporteurs)

Date Issued

2022

Publisher

EPFL

Publisher place

Lausanne

Public defense year

2022-02-28

Thesis number

9815

Total of pages

251

Subjects

global regularity

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partial regularity

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convex integration

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supercriticality

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singular set

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Navier-Stokes equation

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Euler equation

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SQG equation

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nonlinear wave equation.

EPFL units
AMCV  
Faculty
SB  
School
MATH  
Doctoral School
EDMA  
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