Problems / differential-equations
differential-equations / Fluid dynamics; singularity formation for incompressible flow
Finite-time blowup for the inviscid Boussinesq system with smooth forcing
Yes. Blowup for the inviscid Boussinesq system on R2 with forces in C∞(R2×[0,T∗]) in both equations, supported in one fixed spatial ball, from smooth compactly supported initial temperature and zero initial velocity. The temperature stays bounded while ∥∇θ(t)∥∞→∞ and the vorticity norm has infinite limsup as t↑T∗. The solution is smooth on every closed interval before blowup and unique in a finite-energy Lipschitz class. This lifts the force from barely C1 to fully smooth, and is the construction the Euler paper then builds on. Not the Clay Millennium problem: that problem is Navier-Stokes with viscosity, and Fefferman's official description states that the Euler equation "is not on the Clay Institute's list of prize problems".