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We review some recent results concerning the evolution of a vortex filament and its relation to the cubic non-linear Schr\"odinger equation. Selfsimilar solutions and questions related to their stability are studied.
In this proceedings article we shall survey a series of results on the stability of self-similar solutions of the vortex filament equation. This equation is a geometric flow for curves in $\mathbb R^3$ and it is used as a model for the…
In this paper we explore the nature of self-similar solutions of the Curve Shortening Flow and the Vortex Filament Equation, also known as the Binormal Flow. We explore some of their fundamental conservation properties and describe the…
The evolution of a vortex line following the binormal flow equation (i.e. with a velocity proportional to the local curvature in the direction of the binormal vector) has been postulated as an approximation for the evolution of vortex…
The aim of this article is to establish a concise proof for a stability result of self-similar solutions of the binormal flow, in some more restrictive cases than in [5]. This equation, also known as the Local Induction Approximation, is a…
We investigate the formation of singularities in a self-similar form of regular solutions of the Localized Induction Approximation (also referred as to the binormal flow). This equation appears as an approximation model for the self-induced…
In this paper, we consider the concentration property of solutions to the dispersive Ginzburg-Landau (or Gross-Pitaevskii) equation in three dimensions. On a spatial domain, it has long been conjectured that such a solution concentrates…
For the class of quasi-periodic solutions of the vortex filament equation, we study connections between the algebro-geometric data used for their explicit construction and the geometry of the evolving curves. We give a complete description…
In this paper, we study the evolution of a vortex filament in an incompressible ideal fluid. Under the assumption that the vorticity is concentrated along a smooth curve in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we prove that the curve evolves to leading order by…
In this paper we continue our investigation about selfsimilar solutions of the vortex filament equation, also known as the binormal flow (BF) or the localized induction equation (LIE). Our main result is the stability of the selfsimilar…
In this paper we study the stability of the self-similar solutions of the binormal flow, which is a model for the dynamics of vortex filaments in fluids and super-fluids. These particular solutions $\chi_a(t,x)$ form a family of evolving…
The binormal flow is a model for the dynamics of a vortex filament in a 3-D inviscid incompressible fluid. The flow is also related with the classical continuous Heisenberg model in ferromagnetism, and the 1-D cubic Schr\"odinger equation.…
We consider a viscous fluid with kinematic viscosity $\nu $ and initial data consisting of a smooth closed vortex filament with circulation $\Gamma $. We show that, for short enough time, the solution consists of a deformed Lamb-Oseen…
The dynamics of curved vortex filaments is studied analytically and numerically in the framework of a three-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE). It is proved that a straight vortex line is unstable with respect to…
We present a numerical study of the self-similar solutions of the Localized Induction Approximation of a vortex filament. These self-similar solutions, which constitute a one-parameter family, develop a singularity at finite time. We study…
We focus on a class of solutions of the binormal flow, model of the evolution of vortex filaments, that generate several corner singularities in finite time. This phenomenon has been studied earlier in the regular case, which in this…
We study the topology of quasiperiodic solutions of the vortex filament equation in a neighborhood of multiply covered circles. We construct these solutions by means of a sequence of isoperiodic deformations, at each step of which a real…
Two-dimensional Euler flows, in the plane or on simple surfaces, possess a material invariant, namely the scalar vorticity normal to the surface. Consequently, flows with piecewise-uniform vorticity remain that way, and moreover evolve in a…
The extended Painlev\'e P.D.E. system $\Delta y -x_1 y - 2 |y|^2y=0$, $(x_1,\ldots,x_n)\in \mathbb{R}^n$, $y:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^m$, is obtained by multiplying by $-x_1$ the linear term of the Ginzburg-Landau equation $\Delta…
We show that self-similar solutions for the mean curvature flow, surface diffusion and Willmore flow of entire graphs are stable upon perturbations of initial data with small Lipschitz norm. Roughly speaking, the perturbed solutions are…