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The Ubiquity of Fluid Instability

Susan Friedlander, UIC

We argue that in some appropriate sense almost all steady flows of an ideal fluid are unstable. However there are a number of different kinds of instability. We will discuss the behaviour of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations in the context of fluid instability.

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