Originally Posted by mollusk

This is so geeky.

I recently found a 5 parameter set of exact solutions to the two dimensional steady, nonlinear, and incompressible Euler equations. They are a set of nonlinear partial differential equations in fluid mechanics that has very few known nonlinear solutions. I have now found a whole bunch of new ones.

Too bad I am retiring this spring because something like this is a career defining result for a fluid mechanics person and I am not even that. I work in combustion. I just stumbled upon it screwing around one afternoon when I was bored.