Related papers: The vortex patches of Serfati
In "Global regularity for vortex patches" (Commun. Math. Phys. 1993), Bertozzi and Constantin formulate the vortex patch problem in the level-set framework and prove a priori estimates for this active scalar equation. By extending the tools…
We prove persistence of the regularity of the boundary of vortex patches for a large class of transport equations in the plane. The velocity field is given by convolution of the vorticity with an odd kernel, homogeneous of degree $-1$ and…
We consider the vortex patch problem for both the 2-D and 3-D incompressible Euler equations. In 2-D, we prove that for vortex patches with $H^{k-0.5}$ Sobolev-class contour regularity, $k \ge 4$, the velocity field on both sides of the…
In 1993, Chemin proved that vorticity possessing negative Holder regularity in directions given by a sufficient family of vector fields (striated regularity) maintains such regularity for all time when measured against the push-forward of…
It is well known that the Euler vortex patch in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ will remain regular if it is regular enough initially. In bounded domains, the regularity theory for patch solutions is less complete. In this paper, we study Euler vortex…
It is well known that the Euler vortex patch in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ 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…
We prove the persistence of boundary smoothness of vortex patches for a non-linear transport equation in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with velocity field given by convolution of the density with an odd kernel, homogeneous of degree $-(n-1)$ and of class…
We investiage the (slightly) super-critical 2-D Euler equations. The paper consists of two parts. In the first part we prove well-posedness in $C^s$ spaces for all $s>0.$ We also give growth estimates for the $C^s$ norms of the vorticity…
We consider the classical point vortex model in the mean-field scaling regime, in which the velocity field experienced by a single point vortex is proportional to the average of the velocity fields generated by the remaining point vortices.…
We consider the incompressible Euler equations in a (possibly multiply connected) bounded domain of R^2, for flows with bounded vorticity, for which Yudovich proved, in 1963, global existence and uniqueness of the solution. We prove that if…
We characterize the possible behaviors at infinity of weak solutions to the 2D Euler equations in the full plane having bounded velocity and bounded vorticity. We show that any such solution can be put in the form obtained by Ph. Serfati in…
We consider a family of 2D logarithmic spiral vortex sheets which include the celebrated spirals introduced by Prandtl (Vortr\"age aus dem Gebiete der Hydro- und Aero-dynamik, 1922) and by Alexander (Phys. Fluids, 1971). We prove that for…
In this paper, we will study the following geometric flow, obtained by Goldstein and Petrich while considering the evolution of a vortex patch in the plane under Euler's equations, X_t = -k_s n - (1/2) k^2 T, with s being the arc-length…
We analyze the optimal regularity that is exactly propagated by a transport equation driven by a velocity field with BMO gradient. As an application, we study the 2D Euler equations in case the initial vorticity is bounded. The sharpness of…
This paper deals with the existence of $N$ vortex patches located at the vertex of a regular polygon with $N$ sides that rotate around the center of the polygon at a constant angular velocity. That is done for Euler and (SQG)$_\beta$…
In $1962$, Yudovich proved the existence and uniqueness of classical solutions to the 2D incompressible Euler equations in the case where the fluid occupies a bounded domain with entering and exiting flows on some parts of the boundary. The…
We construct a family of rotating vortex patches with fixed angular velocity for the two-dimensional Euler equations in a disk. As the vorticity strength goes to infinity, the limit of these rotating vortex patches is a rotating point…
The vortex dynamics of Euler's equations for a constant density fluid flow in $R^4$ is studied. Most of the paper focuses on singular Dirac delta distributions of the vorticity two-form $\omega$ in $R^4$. These distributions are supported…
The main goal of this paper is to explore the leapfrogging phenomenon in the inviscid planar flows. We show for 2d Euler equations that under suitable constraints, four concentrated vortex patches leapfrog for all time. When observed from a…
The motion of a two-dimensional buoyant vortex patch, i.e. a vortex patch with a uniform density different from the uniform density of the surrounding fluid, is analyzed in terms of evolution equations for the motion of its centroid,…