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Piecewise smooth stationary Euler flows with support in a neighborhood of a helix

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-17 v1

Abstract

We construct stationary solutions of the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations with helical symmetry and support in a neighborhood of a helix. The solutions are piecewise smooth and arise from a nonlinear overdetermined elliptic boundary value problem associated with a stream-function formulation. A distinguishing feature is that the vortex cross-sections are intrinsically anisotropic: after rescaling, the leading-order shape is elliptic rather than radial, and the boundary exhibits a nontrivial third Fourier mode reflecting helical effects absent in previous axisymmetric constructions. A key step in the proof is the analysis of a genuinely anisotropic overdetermined elliptic problem with prescribed Dirichlet and nonconstant Neumann conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2607.16141,
  title  = {Piecewise smooth stationary Euler flows with support in a neighborhood of a helix},
  author = {Daniel Peralta-Salas and Jie Wan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16141},
  year   = {2026}
}

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41 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2005.04380