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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

We investigate the nonlinear stability of compressible vortex sheet solutions for three-dimensional (3D) isentropic elastic flows. Building upon previous results on the weakly linear stability of elastic vortex sheets [19], we perform a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Robin Ming Chen , Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang , Difan Yuan

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 analyze the stability of the vortex lattice in a rotating superfluid against thermal fluctuations associated with the long-wavelength Tkachenko modes of the lattice. Inclusion of only the two-dimensional modes leads formally to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Gordon Baym

In this paper, we solve a long-standing open problem: nonlinear stability of current-vortex sheet in the ideal incompressible Magneto-Hydrodynamics under the linear stability condition. This result gives a first rigorous confirmation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Yongzhong Sun , Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

We consider rotating equilibrium states of fluid deformable surfaces. These states are characterized by a force balance between centrifugal and bending forces, involve surface Killing vector fields and are independent on the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-20 Michael Nestler , Axel Voigt

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

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 we derive an evolution equation for the discontinuity front of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Paola Trebeschi

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.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-28 Valeria Banica , Luis Vega

We study the evolution of vortex sheets according to the Birkhoff-Rott equation, which describe the motion of sharp shear interfaces governed by the incompressible Euler equation in two dimensions. In a recent work, the authors demonstrated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-06 Ryan Murray , Galen Wilcox

We construct a family of rotating vortex patches with fixed angular velocity for the two-dimensional Euler equations in a disk. As the vorticity strength goes to infinity, the limit of these rotating vortex patches is a rotating point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Daomin Cao , Jie Wan , Guodong Wang , Weicheng Zhan

The nonlinear evolution of a vortex sheet driven by the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability is characterized by the formation of a spiral possessing complex stretching and intensity patterns. We show that the power energy spectrum of a single…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Malek Abid , Alberto Verga

We consider the motion of the interface separating two domains of the same fluid that moves with different velocity along the tangential direction of the interface. We assume that the fluids occupying the two domains are of constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sijue Wu

The magnetohydrodynamic current-vortex sheet is a free boundary problem involving a moving free surface separating two plasma regions. We prove the global nonlinear stability of current-vortex sheet in the two dimensional ideal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Yuan Cai , Zhen Lei

We investigate the linear stability of inviscid columnar vortices with respect to finite energy perturbations. For a large class of vortex profiles, we show that the linearized evolution group has a sub-exponential growth in time, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Thierry Gallay , Didier Smets

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

The motion of a two-dimensional buoyant vortex patch, i.e. a vortex patch with a uniform density different from the uniform density of the surrounding fluid, is analyzed in terms of evolution equations for the motion of its centroid,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-07 Banavara N. Shashikanth , Rangachari Kidambi

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

We consider the incompressible Euler equations in the half cylinder $ \mathbb{R}_{>0}\times\mathbb{T}$. In this domain, any vorticity which is independent of $x_2$ defines a stationary solution. We prove that such a stationary solution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Kyudong Choi , In-Jee Jeong , Deokwoo Lim

The linear stability of stratified two-phase flows in rectangular ducts is studied numerically. The linear stability analysis takes into account all possible infinitesimal three-dimensional disturbances and is carried out by solution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-09 Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner