Several inviscid models in hydrodynamics and geophysics such as the incompressible Euler vorticity equations, the surface quasi-geostrophic equation and the Boussinesq equations are not known to have even local well-posedness in the corresponding borderline Sobolev spaces. Here H is referred to as a borderline Sobolev space if the L∞-norm of the gradient of the velocity is not bounded by the H-...

The breakup of a drop of inviscid fluid into two smaller drops is determined by a competition between surface and inertial forces. This process forms a thin filament of fluid with a connecting neck that shrinks to zero diameter at a finite time singularity. We present measurements of the electrical resistance of a liquid bridge of mercury as it undergoes pinch off. The electrical measurements a...

An inviscid model for the Karman vortex street, containing vortices of uniform vorticity surrounded by irrotational fluid, is related to the wake behind a bluff body by a global analysis requiring the conservation of momentum, energy and vorticity. Some comparison is made with experimental results reported in the literature. A qualitative procedure is proposed whereby the slow evolution of the ...

We survey certain topological methods for problems in inviscid fluid dynamics in dimension three. The tools come from the topology of contact structures, or nowhere-integrable plane fields. The applications are most robust in the setting of fluids on Riemannian three-manifolds which are not necessarily Euclidean. For example, these methods can be used to construct surprising examples of invisci...