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On the search for singularities in incompressible flows

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In these notes we give some examples of the interaction of mathematics with experiments and numerical simulations on the search for singularities.

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Córdoba, D. On the search for singularities in incompressible flows. Appl Math 51, 299–320 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-006-0108-x

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