Geometric blow-up criteria for the non-homogeneous incompressible Euler equations in 2-D

Abstract

This paper concerns the study of the incompressible Euler equations with variable density, in the case of space dimension $d=2$. Contrarily to their homogeneous (constant density) counterpart, those equations are not known to be well-posed globally in time. A classical blow-up/continuation criterion for smooth solutions relies on the control of the Lipschitz norm of the velocity field $u$. Here we show that, for establishing blow-up or continuation of solutions, it is enough to determine a control of $\nabla u$ only along the direction $X=\nabla^\perp\rho$, where $\rho$ represents the density of the fluid. Our results deal with both the subcritical regularity and critical regularity frameworks. They rely on a novel approach to study regularity of solutions for the density-dependent incompressible Euler equations. Besides, they allow to recover the global well-posedness for $\rho\equiv {\rm cst}$ as a particular case.