“…(1.1) in the limit of vanishing * Electronic address: bec@obs-nice.fr † Electronic address: kk262@newton.cam.ac.uk viscosity (ν → 0) displays after a finite time dissipative singularities, namely shocks, corresponding to discontinuities in the velocity field. In the presence of large-scale forcing, it was recently stressed for the one-dimensional case [7,8] and also for higher dimensions [9,10], that the global topological structure of such singularities is strongly related to the boundary conditions associated to the equation. More precisely, when, for instance, space periodicity is assumed, a generic topological shock structure can be outlined.…”