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Existence of stationary vortex sheets for the 2D Euler equation

Analysis of PDEs 2022-05-06 v1

Abstract

We investigate a steady planar flow of an ideal fluid in a (bounded or unbounded) domain ΩR2\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2. Let κi0\kappa_i\not=0, i=1,,mi=1,\ldots, m, be mm arbitrary fixed constants. For any given non-degenerate critical point x0=(x0,1,,x0,m)\mathbf{x}_0=(x_{0,1},\ldots,x_{0,m}) of the Kirchhoff-Routh function defined on Ωm\Omega^m corresponding to (κ1,,κm)(\kappa_1,\ldots, \kappa_m), we construct a family of stationary planar flows with vortex sheets that have large vorticity amplitude and are perturbations of small circles centered near xix_i, i=1,,mi=1,\ldots,m. The proof is accomplished via the implicit function theorem with suitable choice of function spaces. This seems to be the first nontrivial result on the existence of stationary vortex sheets in domains.

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@article{arxiv.2108.07436,
  title  = {Existence of stationary vortex sheets for the 2D Euler equation},
  author = {Daomin Cao and Guolin Qin and Changjun Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07436},
  year   = {2022}
}
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