“…Besides the interest for the applications, there have been numerous mathematical contributions which can be tracked back to the work by Stokes [32], Zhukovskii [34], Hough [8], Poincaré [18], and Sobolev [31], mostly concerned with ideal fluids. In recent years, new stability results have been derived: they are obtained for suitable geometrical configurations of S and/or by linearizing the equations of motion ( [23,24,25,2,30,13,12,16,11]). In [29,14], the class of weak solutions à la Leray-Hopf, corresponding to initial data having finite total kinetic energy, has been proved to be nonempty.…”