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We review and apply the continuous symmetry approach to find the solution of the 3D Euler fluid equations in several instances of interest, via the construction of constants of motion and infinitesimal symmetries, without recourse to…

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In this paper, we study the two-dimensional steady compactly supported incompressible Euler equations with free boundaries. We consider flows with constant vorticity that are perturbations of annular equilibria, in contrast to the laminar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Changfeng Gui , Jun Wang , Wen Yang , Yong Zhang

We demonstrate a robust, stable, mobile, two-dimensional (2D) spatial and three-dimensional (3D) spatiotemporal optical soliton in the core of an optical vortex, while all nonlinearities are of the cubic (Kerr) type. The 3D soliton can…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-11-03 S. K. Adhikari

We consider Euler flows on two-dimensional (2D) periodic domain and are interested in the stability, both linear and nonlinear, of a simple equilibrium given by the 2D Taylor-Green vortex. As the first main result, numerical evidence is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-01 Xinyu Zhao , Bartosz Protas , Roman Shvydkoy

The remarkable robustness of isolated columnar vortices suggests the existence of fundamental constraints that prevent spontaneous disintegration. In this work, we investigate the weakly nonlinear stability of such flows, demonstrating that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-17 Jinge Wang , Sangjoon Lee , Philip S. Marcus

The instability of ideal non-divergent zonal flows on the sphere is determined numerically by the instability criterion of Arnol'd (1966) for the sectional curvature. Zonal flows are unstable for all perturbations besides for a small set…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-22 Richard Blender

We carry out a general study of the stability of astrophysical flows that appear steady in a uniformly rotating frame. Such a flow might correspond to a stellar pulsation mode or an accretion disk with a free global distortion giving it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. C. B. Papaloizou

The linear stability of the laminar boundary layer flow of a Stokes wave in deep waters is investigated by means of a 'momentary' criterion of instability for unsteady flows (Blondeaux and Seminara, 1979). In the parameter range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-10 Francesco Fedele

Two-dimensional free-surface flow over localised topography is examined with the emphasis on the stability of hydraulic-fall solutions. A Gaussian topography profile is assumed with a positive or negative amplitude modelling a bump or a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jack S. Keeler , Mark G. Blyth

This paper shows that for the three-dimensional compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations, the planar viscous shocks are time-asymptotically stable to suitably small initial perturbations with zero masses. In particular, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Qian Yuan

(Abriged) The existence of large-scale and long-lived 2D vortices in accretion discs has been debated for more than a decade. They appear spontaneously in several 2D disc simulations and they are known to accelerate planetesimal formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lesur , J. C. B. Papaloizou

We study the long-time behavior an extended Navier-Stokes system in $\R^2$ where the incompressibility constraint is relaxed. This is one of several "reduced models" of Grubb and Solonnikov '89 and was revisited recently (Liu, Liu, Pego…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Gung-Min Gie , Christopher Henderson , Gautam Iyer , Landon Kavlie , Jared P. Whitehead

Sinusoidal flows are an important class of explicit stationary solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations on a flat torus. For such flows, the steam functions are eigenfunctions of the negative Laplacian. In this paper,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Guodong Wang , Bijun Zuo

Vortex lattices -- highly ordered arrays of vortices -- are known to arise in quantum systems such as type II superconductors and Bose-Einstein condensates. More recently, similar arrangements have been reported in classical rotating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Julián Amette Estrada , Alexandros Alexakis , Marc E. Brachet , Pablo D. Mininni

Kelvin-Stuart vortices are classical mixing layer flows with many applications in fluid mechanics, plasma physics and astrophysics. We prove that the whole family of Kelvin-Stuart vortices is nonlinearly orbitally stable for co-periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin , Hao Zhu

We investigate some qualitative aspects of the dynamics of the Euler equation on a rotating sphere that are relevant or stratospheric flows. Zonal flow dominates the dynamics of the stratosphere and for most known planetary stratospheres…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Adrian Constantin , Pierre Germain , Zhiwu Lin , Hao Zhu

Quantized vortices have been observed in a variety of superfluid systems, from $^4$He to condensates of alkali-metal bosons and ultracold Fermi gases along the BEC-BCS crossover. In this article we study the stability of singly quantized…

Simple analytical criteria are derived to determine whether axisymmetric base flows in annuli and pipes are stable or unstable. Both axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric inviscid disturbances are considered. Our sufficient condition for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Kengo Deguchi , Haider Munawar , Runjie Song

This paper investigates an incompressible steady free boundary problem of Euler equations with helical symmetry in $3$ dimensions and with nontrivial vorticity. The velocity field of the fluid arises from the spiral of its velocity within a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Lili Du , Feng Ji

We present the first concrete evidence for the classical stability of vortons, circular cosmic string loops stabilized by the angular momentum of the charge and current trapped on the string. We begin by summarizing what is known about…

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