The new Navier-Stokes vortex solution: speeds diverge but the vortex shrinks to nothing
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-09-10
Responding to a viral take on the Navier-Stokes problem, AlmostSure explains the newly found solution: it doesn't "explode"—instead a vortex develops whose speeds diverge to infinity in finite time, but the vortex shrinks to a point fast enough that its energy and angular momentum drop to zero. The original post framed this as: in a truly continuous universe fluids might sometimes explode, an issue for classical mathematics but not for a computational universe.
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