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REMARKS ON THE NONLINEAR INSTABILITY OF INCOMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS

  • XIE Hua-Chao ,
  • ZI Rui-Zhao
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  • Department of Mathematics, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450002, China|Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Received date: 2010-01-21

  Online published: 2011-09-20

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The research of Xie was supported by the NSFC (11071094). The research of Zi was supported by the NSFC (The Youth Foundation) (10901068) and CCNU Project (CCNU09A01004).

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear instability of incompressible Euler equations. If a steady density is non-monotonic, then the smooth steady state is a non-linear instability. First, we use variational method to find a dominant eigenvalue which is important in the construction of approximate solutions, then by energy technique and analytic method, we obtain the dynamical instability result.

Cite this article

XIE Hua-Chao , ZI Rui-Zhao . REMARKS ON THE NONLINEAR INSTABILITY OF INCOMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2011 , 31(5) : 1877 -1888 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60367-6

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