Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Date: April 6, 2021

Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: Zoom

Speaker: Theodore D. Drivas, Stony Brook University

Title: Flexibility, rigidity and stability of steady fluid motion

Abstract: We discuss the possibility and the impossibility of smooth deformations of equilibrium fluid states in the presence of symmetries. We will also make some remarks about the stability/instability of stationary states.