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In 1894 M.J.M. Hill published an article describing a spherical vortex moving through a stationary fluid. Using cylindrical coordinates and assuming the azimuthal velocity component zero, Hill found a simple solution that described this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-06 Jason M. Keller , Alexei F. Cheviakov

We establish the stability of a pair of Hill's spherical vortices moving away from each other in 3D incompressible axisymmetric Euler equations without swirl. Each vortex in the pair propagates away from its odd-symmetric counterpart, while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Young-Jin Sim

We consider the linear stability of Hill's vortex with respect to axisymmetric perturbations. Given that Hill's vortex is a solution of a free-boundary problem, this stability analysis is performed by applying methods of shape…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 Bartosz Protas , Alan Elcrat

This paper is concerned with steady vortex rings in an ideal fluid of uniform density, which are special global axi-symmetric solutions of the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equation. We systematically establish the existence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Daomin Cao , Guolin Qin , Weilin Yu , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

A popular model for a generic fat-cored vortex ring or eddy is Hill's spherical vortex (Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A vol. 185, 1894, p. 213). Here we find an exact solution for such a spherical vortex steadily propagating along the axis of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-31 M. M. Scase , H. L. Terry

The mathematical theory of hydrodynamic stability started in the middle of the 19th century with the study of model examples, such as parallel flows, vortex rings, and surfaces of discontinuity. We focus here on the equally interesting case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Thierry Gallay

In this paper, we are concerned with the uniqueness and nonlinear stability of vortex rings for the 3D Euler equation. By utilizing Arnold 's variational principle for steady states of Euler equations and concentrated compactness method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Daomin Cao , Shanfa Lai , Guolin Qin , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

We deal with the Hill's spherical vortex, which is an exact solution to the Euler equation, and manage the solution to satisfy the incompressible Navier-Stokes(INS) equations with a viscous term. Once we get a viscous solution to the INS…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 Minoru Fujimoto , Kunihiko Uehara , Shinichiro Yanase

The Hill vortex is a three-dimensional vortex structure solution of the Euler equations. For small amplitude axisymmetric disturbances on the external surface from the linear stability analysis by \citet{moff78} emerged the formation of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-31 Paolo Orlandi

A class of harmonic solutions to the steady Euler equations for incompressible fluids is presented in two dimensions in circular, elliptic and bipolar coordinates. Since the velocity field is solenoidal in this case, it can be written as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-06 Pablo Luis Rendón , Eugenio Ley-Koo

In this paper, we investigate Childress's conjecture proposed in [Phys.D 237(14-17):1921-1925, 2008] on the growth rate of the vorticity maximum for axisymmetric swirl-free Euler flows in three and higher dimensions. We consider the setting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Daomin Cao , Junhong Fan , Guolin Qin

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

The velocity field within a steady toroidal vortex is found for arbitrary mean core radius and section ellipticity. The problem is solved by transforming to coordinates that define invariant sets. The method allows the properties of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-21 T. S. Morton

For the 2D incompressible Euler equations, we establish global-in-time ($t \in \mathbb{R}$) stability of vortex quadrupoles satisfying odd symmetry with respect to both axes. Specifically, if the vorticity restricted to a quadrant is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Kyudong Choi , In-Jee Jeong , Yao Yao

In this paper we study concentrated solutions of the three-dimensional Euler equations in helical symmetry without swirl. We prove that any helical vorticity solution initially concentrated around helices of pairwise distinct radii remains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Martin Donati , Christophe Lacave , Evelyne Miot

We study desingularization of steady vortex rings in three-dimensional axisymmetric incompressible Euler fluids with swirl. Using the variational method, we construct a two-parameter family of steady vortex rings, which constitute a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Daomin Cao , Jie Wan , Weicheng Zhan

We introduce a notion of stability for non-autonomous Hamiltonian flows on two-dimensional annular surfaces. This notion of stability is designed to capture the sustained twisting of particle trajectories. The main Theorem is applied to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Theodore D. Drivas , Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

We consider an incompressible fluid with axial symmetry without swirl, assuming initial data such that the initial vorticity is very concentrated inside $N$ small disjoint rings of thickness $\varepsilon$, each one of vorticity mass and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Paolo Buttà , Guido Cavallaro , Carlo Marchioro

In this investigation we revisit the question of the linear stability analysis of 2D steady Euler flows characterized by the presence of compact regions with constant vorticity embedded in a potential flow. We give a complete derivation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-06-03 Alan Elcrat , Bartosz Protas

Columnar vortices are stationary solutions of the three-dimensional Euler equations with axial symmetry, where the velocity field only depends on the distance to the axis and has no component in the axial direction. Stability of such flows…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Thierry Gallay , Didier Smets
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