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Singularities tend to occur near separatrices. Two examples are described in support of this assertion. The first example describes current sheets in coronal plasmas that grow algebraically in time. The second example describes a vortex singularity which develops in finite time in three-dimensional Euler flows.
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Bhattacharjee, A. (1993). Separatrices and Singularities. In: Caflisch, R.E., Papanicolaou, G.C. (eds) Singularities in Fluids, Plasmas and Optics. NATO ASI Series, vol 404. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2022-7_14
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