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Global regularity and fast small scale formation for Euler patch equation in a disk

Analysis of PDEs 2017-08-25 v2

Abstract

It is well known that the Euler vortex patch in R2\mathbb{R}^{2} will remain regular if it is regular enough initially. In bounded domains, the regularity theory for patch solutions is less complete. We study here the Euler vortex patch in a disk. We prove global in time regularity by providing the upper bound of the growth of curvature of the patch boundary. For a special symmetric scenario, we construct an example of double exponential curvature growth, showing that such upper bound is qualitatively sharp.

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@article{arxiv.1703.09674,
  title  = {Global regularity and fast small scale formation for Euler patch equation in a disk},
  author = {Chao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09674},
  year   = {2017}
}
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