Explosive Instabilities in Mechanics

• 1. Introduction.- 1.1 Blow-Up in Partial Differential Equations in Applied Mathematics.- 1.2 Methods of Establishing Non-existence and Growth Solutions.- 1.3 Finite Time Blow-Up Systems with Convection.- 2. Analysis of a First-Order System.- 2.1 Conditional Decay of Solutions.- 2.2 Boundedness of Solutions.- 2.3 Unconditional Decay of Solutions.- 2.4 Global Non-existence of Solutions.- 2.5 Numerical Results by Finite Elements.- 3. Singularities for Classical Fluid Equations.- 3.1 Breakdown for First-Order Systems.- 3.2 Blow-Up of Solutions to the Euler Equations.- 3.3 Blow-Up of Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations.- 4. Catastrophic Behaviour in Other Non-linear Fluid Theories.- 4.1 Non-existence on Unbounded Domains.- 4.2 A Model for a Second Grade Fluid in Glacier Physics.- 4.3 Blow-Up for Generalised KdeV Equations.- 4.4 Very Rapid Growth in Ferrohydrodynamics.- 4.5 Temperature Blow-Up in an Ice Sheet.- 5. Blow-Up in Volterra Equations.- 5.1 Blow-Up for a Solution to a VolterraEquation.- 5.2 Blow-Up for a Solution to a System of Volterra Equations.- 6. Chemotaxis.- 6.1 Mathematical Theories of Chemotaxis.- 6.2 Blow-Up in Chemotaxis When There Are Two Diffusion Terms.- 6.3 Blow-Up in Chemotaxis with a Single Diffusion Term.- 7. Change of Type.- 7.1 Instability in a Hypoplastic Material.- 7.2 Instability in a Viscous Plastic Model for Sea Ice Dynamics.- 7.3 Pressure Dependent Viscosity Flow.- 8. Rapid Energy Growth in Parallel Flows.- 8.1 Rapid Growth in Incompressible Viscous Flows.- 8.2 Transient Growth in Compressible Flows.- 8.3 Shear Flow in Granular Materials.- 8.4 Energy Growth in Parallel Flows of Superimposed Viscous Fluids.

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