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Stability of the two-dimensional point vortices in Euler flows

Analysis of PDEs 2022-02-08 v2

Abstract

We consider the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equation {tω+uω=0ω(0,x)=ω0(x).\begin{cases} \partial_t \omega + u\cdot \nabla \omega=0 \\ \omega(0,x)=\omega_0(x). \end{cases} We are interested in the cases when the initial vorticity has the form ω0=ω0,ϵ+ω0p,ϵ\omega_0=\omega_{0,\epsilon}+\omega_{0p,\epsilon}, where ω0,ϵ\omega_{0,\epsilon} is concentrated near MM disjoint points pm0p_m^0 and ω0p,ϵ\omega_{0p,\epsilon} is a small perturbation term. First, we prove that for such initial vorticities, the solution ω(x,t)\omega(x,t) admits a decomposition ω(x,t)=ωϵ(x,t)+ωp,ϵ(x,t)\omega(x,t)=\omega_{\epsilon}(x,t)+\omega_{p,\epsilon}(x,t), where ωϵ(x,t)\omega_{\epsilon}(x,t) remains concentrated near MM points pm(t)p_m(t) and ωp,ϵ(x,t)\omega_{p,\epsilon}(x,t) remains small for t[0,T]t \in [0,T]. Second, we give a quantitative description when the initial vorticity has the form ω0(x)=m=1Mγmϵ2η(xpm0ϵ)\omega_0(x)=\sum_{m=1}^M \frac{\gamma_m}{\epsilon^2}\eta(\frac{x-p_m^0}{\epsilon}), where we do not assume η\eta to have compact support. Finally, we prove that if pm(t)p_m(t) remains separated for all t[0,+)t\in[0,+\infty), then ω(x,t)\omega(x,t) remains concentrated near MM points at least for tc0logAϵt \le c_0 |\log A_{\epsilon}|, where AϵA_{\epsilon} is small and converges to 00 as ϵ0\epsilon \to 0.

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@article{arxiv.2201.11158,
  title  = {Stability of the two-dimensional point vortices in Euler flows},
  author = {Dengjun Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11158},
  year   = {2022}
}

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28 pages

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