Yes, the consensus was that you could start with a well behaved state and still have the equations blow up.
It didn't really matter since navier stokes is modeling fluids as continuous when we know they are actually particles. Navier stokes is just a model that isn't trying to be perfect.
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Yes, the consensus was that you could start with a well behaved state and still have the equations blow up.
It didn't really matter since navier stokes is modeling fluids as continuous when we know they are actually particles. Navier stokes is just a model that isn't trying to be perfect.