Navier Stokes Equation | A Million-Dollar Question in Fluid Mechanics

The Navier-Stokes Equations describe everything that flows in the universe. If you can prove that they have smooth solutions, you'll win a million dollars.
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Why didn't Navier and Stokes solve their own equations, damn it?!

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There's something profoundly recursive about using a fluid simulation to illustrate what aspects of fluid motion prevent us from solving Navier-Stokes...an equation that would allow us to accurately simulate all fluids (obviously fluid simulations are using shortcuts and it's just for demonstration purposes, but it's still brain twisty)

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What I find even more beautiful about Navier-Stokes is that when actually think about it, it arises in a relatively "simple" manner, being Newton's Second Law applied to fluid mechanics, but it still so incredibly difficult. Nonlinear parcial differential equations are so rough to handle, but at the same time they appear in so many places in the study of nature, I guess this is a testament to just how complex nature really is. Anyway, very good video, and a question for you, do you plan on covering any other specific differential equations, and if yes, which ones?

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Couldn't agree more! The simplest equation becomes unsolvable once applied to fluids. It's crazy that we can't solve even the most basic non-linear PDE's; it shows just how far we need to go in understanding nature mathematically. I might make a video on some other DEs: likely the Einstein Field Equations of General Relativity (tensor calculus on curved manifolds, very interesting), or maybe the three-body problem. Thanks for the comment!

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Love the video! Maybe interesting to know: In CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) we solve it by averaging the turbulente fluctuation of the velocity. Therefore different turbulence models are being used and improved every year. That's why flow simulation, around airplanes for example, is possible. So we can't solve it at all, but we became really good at simulating it!

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Thank you!! That's very kind :) I try to show the core intuition behind the topics when making these videos.

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Bro he didn’t explain anything about the mathematics of the equation u simply found the explanation U were looking for to the degree of difficulty that U were looking for but this is simply a history lesson on the problem

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[@finnbraaten3264]

I think we should be a bit careful. Navier Stokes does not describe everything that flows. It only describes flow of even viscosity, isotropic media. It would not describe nematics, polymer flow, or that of active matter/odd viscosity media.

[@michaelmoccio2225]

Though I do love this video, I find it important to point out that ketchup, in particular, is not well described by Navier-Stokes since it is non-Newtonian (i.e. the constant viscosity mu does not apply since shear rate is dependent on the magnitude of shear stress in the fluid). You would need to use the more general Cauchy Momentum Equation for the ketchup case. I think your video does a great job explaining scaling arguements and I think it's a great resource so please don't take it as disliking the video, keep it up!

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What is meant by a “solution”? You mean getting a *closed-form* solution? Many equations have solutions that do not have a closed form and can be approximated arbitrarily closely using numerical methods. Are you saying we don’t even know whether non-closed- form solutions exist?

[@pierrecurie]

Special cases aside, closed form solutions are clearly not possible. The millennium prize is asking for the _existence_ of "smooth" (and prob other conditions as well) solutions. Smooth is probably asking for finite L2 norm or some such - eg when you spill a glass of water, the energy doesn't suddenly all concentrate into heating some tiny region to 9999C. There's also a constraint on the assumptions - you start with "smooth" initial conditions. Otherwise, if you start with singular conditions, it shouldn't be a surprise you to encounter singular conditions later.

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Not trying to be nitpicky and please correct me if I'm mistaken, but it's not strictly correct to say the equation you had up at 0:11 describes the flow of everything in the universe, is it? Isn't that equation the N-S for incompressible, Newtonian fluids (which would exclude honey, for example)?

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I'm of the opinion that the solution of the Navier-Stokes Equation, if it exists, would be so complex that it will have little effect on computational fluid dynamics, beyond perhaps, deriving better turbulence models.

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Really great video! But Navier stokes also has its limits! Even for fluids. You can only apply them to continuums where the Knudsen number is small enough.

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[@AlexAnteroLammikko]

Im not a physicist at all, I don't even study physics, but work in healthcare and have a question on what an "initial condition" is and what "all eternity" means in the context of these equations. I assume this is undergrad level stuff (not the solving the equation, but those particular terms) so am sure some people in the comment can help. Basically, if I have a container of water like a bucket, and the water is settled, and thenI punch it, there is now an "initial condition". But any calculation of the resolving of that reaction can't, and won't, take into consideration other outside acts like me throwing in a brick or tipping the water over or rain occurring. Now lets take the Ocean, or the "air" (the various spheres the names of which I can't recall now but all of which interact with each other). All of these are complex systems with various dynamic entities in them. The Ocean isn't a closed system but even if it was and no water escaped and no additional creatures went in, the existence of animals that can "randomly" change directions would greatly interfere with the calculations as they create new flow. So is the equation assuming a perfect closed system and, if so, what value, if any, does solving the equation have for the "real world" (I have a friend in mathematics who hates the " real world" question but I am not in mathematics so ill ask it :p )

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[@gmartrou]

Awesome video. Just one thing. Didn't you forget to divide -∇p by ρ in the Navier-Stokes equation ?

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"To know Navier-Stokes is to know the mind of God." That was incredible.

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basic, overused meme.

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Navier stokes in incompressible form hurts my eyes - detracts from the problem - and I mainly work with incompressible flows. In any case, great video and very well presented.

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No need to go as far as fluids to find impossible to solve equations, try the 3 body problem or the simple dual/triple pendulum. Such a complex thing as a fluid will go chaotic very quickly. the main problem seems to be that equations have only two sides, however in reality inside a fluid there are infinite many equations that "equal" one another simultaneously. This sort of "dependency" causes chaotic evolution very quickly. Chaotic only because in reality the evolution of systems is always chaotic except in the quantum world. Only in our equations does it seem that things are deterministic. Our equations model reality in the simplest cases very well. You have the best videos on these subjects, great work!

[@inf0phreak]

Professor Terrance Tao wrote on his blog something to the effect of (I'm paraphrasing here): "It's an observed fact that fluids and gasses don't randomly spit out particles moving at near light speed". But of course whether that means that we should expect singularity-free solutions to the equation is another question entirely. As I recall, Tao's work on the equation has been mostly in the direction of proving divergence.

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Very inspiring video... Wish I had a calculus teacher like that.

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The most amazing explanation and video on navier stokes Btw what and where do you study

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[@gustavoexel5569]

There's somrthing off with this equation, unless in your equation p represents specific pressure energy, it should be grad(p) / rho, where p is the pressure, and rho is the specific mass.