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The flow past inline oscillating rectangular cylinders is studied numerically at a Reynolds number representative of two-dimensional flow. A symmetric mode, known as S-II, consisting of a pair of oppositely-signed vortices on each side,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-13 Srikanth Toppaladoddi , Harish N Dixit , Rao Tatavarti , Rama Govindarajan

We are concerned with supersonic vortex sheets for the Euler equations of compressible inviscid fluids in two space dimensions. For the problem with constant coefficients, in [10] the authors have derived a pseudo-differential equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Paolo Secchi

In this paper, we consider the three-dimensional isentropic Navier-Stokes equations for compressible fluids with viscosities depending on density in a power law and allowing initial vacuum. We introduce the notion of regular solutions and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Yachun Li , Ronghua Pan , Shengguo Zhu

A reduced dynamical model is derived which describes the interaction of weak inertia-gravity waves with nonlinear vortical motion in the context of rotating shallow-water flow. The formal scaling assumptions are (i) that there is a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Caroline Nore , Theodore G. Shepherd

Dense granular flows exhibit both surface deformation and secondary flows due to the presence of normal stress differences. Yet, a complete mathematical modelling of these two features is still lacking. This paper focuses on a steady…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-01 C. Gadal , C. G. Johnson , J. M. N. T. Gray

In this note we revisit the proof of Bedrossian and Masmoudi [arXiv:1306.5028] about the inviscid damping of planar shear flows in the 2D Euler equations under the assumption of zero mean perturbation. We prove that a small perturbation to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Michele Dolce

We consider a two-dimensional, two-layer, incompressible, steady flow, with vorticity which is constant in each layer, in an infinite channel with rigid walls. The velocity is continuous across the interface, there is no surface tension or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

We prove the nonlinear inviscid damping for a class of monotone shear flows with non-constant background density for the two-dimensional ideal inhomogeneous fluids in $\mathbb{T}\times [0,1]$ when the initial perturbation is in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Weiren Zhao

We analyze existence, stability, and symmetry of point vortex relative equilibria with one dominant vortex and N vortices with infinitesimal circulation. The dimension of the problem can be reduced by taking an infinitesimal circulation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Anna Barry , Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel

A phenomenological theory is proposed to analyze the asymptotic dynamics of perturbed inviscid Kolmogorov shear flows in two dimensions. The phase diagram provided by the theory is in qualitative agreement with numerical observations, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-18 Shun Ogawa , Julien Barré , Hidetoshi Morita , Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

This paper presents results of two-dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) and global linear stability analyses (based on mean flow and base flow) of a viscous incompressible flow past a circular array of cylinders with six-fold…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Huaibao Zhang , Yongliang Yang , Guangxue Wang , Mengqi Zhang

Quantum vortices with more than a single circulation quantum are usually unstable and decay into clusters of smaller vortices. One way to prevent the decay is to place the vortex at the centre of a convergent (draining) fluid flow, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-12 Sam Patrick

The aim of this contribution is to make a connection between two recent results concerning the dynamics of vortices in incompressible planar flows. The first one is an asymptotic expansion, in the vanishing viscosity limit, of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-10 Thierry Gallay

In this paper we prove the asymptotic stability of the Kolmogorov flow on a non-square torus for perturbations $\omega_0$ satisfying $\|\omega_0\|_{H^3}\ll\nu^{1/3}$, where $0<\nu\ll1$ is the viscosity. Kolmogorov flows are important…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Qi Chen , Hao Jia , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on water of finite depth is considered. It is proved that no small-amplitude waves are supported by a horizontal shear flow whose free surface is still…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov

Significant advancements have emerged in the theory of asymptotic stability of shear flows in stably stratified fluids. In this comprehensive review, we spotlight these recent developments, with particular emphasis on novel approaches that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Roberta Bianchini , Michele Coti Zelati , Michele Dolce

We investigate enstrophy variations by collapse of point vortices in an inviscid flow and, in particular, focus on the enstrophy dissipation that is a significant property characterizing 2D turbulent flows. Point vortex is an ideal vortex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Takeshi Gotoda

Certifying power flow solvability is important for reliable power system operations under volatile operating conditions, but solving power flow equations repeatedly can be costly and may encounter convergence issues. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Puskar Neupane , Bai Cui

The evolution of a small-amplitude localized vortex disturbance in an unbounded shear flow with the linear velocity profile is investigated. Based on the exact solution of the initial problem for basic flow, a revision is made of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Shukhman , V. B. Levinski

We investigate the structure of damped two-dimensional perturbations in unstable plane-parallel shear flows with an inflection point. In inviscid flows within the stable wavenumber region $k$, no regular eigenmodes exist -- the frequency…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Evgeny V. Polyachenko , Ilia G. Shukhman , Michael Karp