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This paper presents a pioneering investigation into the existence of traveling wave solutions for the two-dimensional Euler equations with constant vorticity in a curved annular domain, where gravity acts radially inward. This configuration…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Liang Li , Quan Wang

We consider the dynamics of a vortex sheet that evolves by the Birkhoff-Rott equations. The fluid evolution is understood as a weak solution of the incompressible Euler equations where the vorticity is given by a delta function on a curve…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-25 Angel Castro , Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo

Equilibrium, traveling wave, and periodic orbit solutions of pipe, channel, and plane Couette flows can now be computed precisely at Reynolds numbers above the onset of turbulence. These invariant solutions capture the complex dynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-10-14 John F. Gibson , Predrag Cvitanovic

The periodic orbit conjecture states that, on closed manifolds, the set of lengths of the orbits of a non-vanishing vector field all whose orbits are closed admits an upper bound. This conjecture is known to be false in general due to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Robert Cardona

Establishing the existence of periodic orbits is one of the crucial and most intricate topics in the study of dynamical systems, and over the years, many methods have been developed to this end. On the other hand, finding closed orbits in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Marian Mrozek , Roman Srzednicki , Justin Thorpe , Thomas Wanner

For the $2D$ Euler equation in vorticity formulation, we construct localized smooth solutions whose critical Sobolev norms become large in a short period of time, and solutions which initially belong to $L^\infty \cap H^1$ but escapes $H^1$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Tarek Mohamed Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

In this work we propose a new algorithm for the computation of statistical equilibrium quantities on a cubic lattice when both an energy and a statistical temperature are involved. We demonstrate that the pivot algorithm used in situations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-15 Pavel Bělík , Eric Bibelnieks , Robert Laskowski , Aleksandr Lukanen , Douglas P. Dokken

Fluids can behave in a highly irregular, turbulent way. It has long been realised that, therefore, some weak notion of solution is required when studying the fundamental partial differential equations of fluid dynamics, such as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Dennis Gallenmüller , Raphael Wagner , Emil Wiedemann

Vortex streets are periodic configurations of vortices propagating through an irrotational flow. In this paper, we study streets of hollow vortices, which are solutions to the free boundary $2$-d irrotational incompressible Euler equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Vasileios N. Oikonomou , Samuel Walsh

In the current study, the existence of periodic orbits around a fixed homogeneous cube is investigated, and the results have powerful implications for examining periodic orbits around non-spherical celestial bodies. In the two different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-25 Xiaodong Liu , Hexi Baoyin , Xingrui Ma

Peculiar dynamics of a free surface of the superfluid 4He has been observed experimentally with a newly established technique utilizing a number of electrically charged fine metal particles trapped electrically at the surface by Moroshkin…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-30 S. Inui , M. Tsubota , P. Moroshkin , P. Leiderer , K. Kono

The basic building blocks of many forms of optical topologies are particle-like singularities in phase and polarisation, giving rise to lines of darkness that weave complex threads in 3D space. Although known for half a century since…

We study the motion of a single helical vortex in an unbounded, inviscid, incompressible fluid. The vortex is an infinite tube whose centerline is a helix and whose cross section is a circle of small radius (compared to the radius of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-04 Oscar Velasco Fuentes

We establish the existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions with large vorticity and weak solutions with vortex sheets/entropy waves for the steady Euler equations for both compressible and incompressible fluids in arbitrary infinitely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Fei-Min Huang , Tian-Yi Wang , Wei Xiang

We review applications of factorization methods to the problem of finding stationary point vortex patterns in two-dimensional fluid mechanics. Then we present a new class of patterns related to periodic analogs of Schrodinger operators from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Igor Loutsenko , Oksana Yermolayeva

Vortices and their analysis play a critical role in the understanding of complex phenomena in turbulent flows. Traditional vortex extraction methods, notably region-based techniques, often overlook the entanglement phenomenon, resulting in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-19 Adeel Zafar , Zahra Poorshayegh , Di Yang , Guoning Chen

Periodic travelling waves at the free surface of an incompressible inviscid fluid in two dimensions under gravity are numerically computed for an arbitrary vorticity distribution. The fluid domain over one period is conformally mapped from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Alex Doak , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

We explore theoretically the complex dynamics and emergent behaviors of spinning spheres immersed in viscous fluid. The particles are coupled to each-other via the fluid in which they are suspended: each particle disturbs the surrounding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-18 Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

In the helium case of the classical Coulomb three-body problem in two dimensions with zero angular momentum, we develop a procedure to find periodic orbits applying two symbolic dynamics for one-dimensional and planar problems. A sequence…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-06-17 Mitsusada M. Sano , Kiyotaka Tanikawa

Incompressible flows of an ideal two-dimensional fluid on a closed orientable surface of positive genus are considered. Linear stability of harmonic, i.e. irrotational and incompressible, solutions to the Euler equations is shown using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Vladimir Yushutin