Splitting and Merging of Stagnation Points of Solutions to the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations
Isidro Benaroya, Alberto Enciso, Daniel Peralta-Salas
Published: 2025/10/1
Abstract
We construct solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbf{R}^2$ with an arbitrary number of stagnation points which merge and split along trajectories that can be prescribed freely, up to a small deformation.