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On the optimal rate of vortex stretching for axisymmetric Euler flows without swirl

Analysis of PDEs 2025-03-20 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

For axisymmetric flows without swirl and compactly supported initial vorticity, we prove the upper bound of t4/3t^{4/3} for the growth of the vorticity maximum, which was conjectured by Childress [Phys. D, 2008] and supported by numerical computations from Childress--Gilbert--Valiant [J. Fluid Mech. 2016]. The key is to estimate the velocity maximum by the kinetic energy together with conserved quantities involving the vorticity.

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@article{arxiv.2409.19497,
  title  = {On the optimal rate of vortex stretching for axisymmetric Euler flows without swirl},
  author = {Deokwoo Lim and In-Jee Jeong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.19497},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

24 pages, 2 figures, this version to appear in Arch. Rational Mech. Anal