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Cusp Formation in Vortex Patches

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-16 v2

Abstract

We prove instantaneous cusp formation for any initial vortex patch with acute corners. This was conjectured to occur in the numerical literature.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2504.02705,
  title  = {Cusp Formation in Vortex Patches},
  author = {Tarek M. Elgindi and Min Jun Jo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02705},
  year   = {2025}
}
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