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Using the Klein-Majda-Damodaran model of nearly-parallel vortex filaments, we construct vortex knots and links on a torus involving periodic boundary conditions and analyze their stability. For a special class of vortex knots -- toroidal…

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This paper investigates the dynamics of closed vortex filaments in $\R^3$ governed by the Localized Induction Equation. Recently, Aiki and Higaki (2026) established the nonlinear orbital stability of circular vortex filaments under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Masashi Aiki , Mitsuo Higaki

Using the recently developed Bloch-state tomography technique, the quasimomentum $\bf k$-dependent Bloch states ${\left( {\sin \left( {{\theta _{\mathbf{k}}}/2} \right),\; - \cos \left( {{\theta _{\mathbf{k}}}/2} \right){e^{i{\phi…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-31 Jinlong Yu

The hypersonic flow stability over a two-dimensional compression corner is studied using resolvent analysis, linear stability theory (LST) and parabolised stability equation (PSE). The authors find that the interaction between upstream…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-25 Peixu Guo , Jiaao Hao , Chih-Yung Wen

A point particle approximation to the classical dynamics of well separated vortices of the abelian Higgs model is developed. A static vortex is asymptotically identical to a solution of the linearized field theory (a Klein-Gordon/Proca…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 J. M. Speight

The essence of turbulent flow is the conveyance of energy through the formation, interaction, and destruction of eddies over a wide range of spatial scales--from the largest scales where energy is injected, down to the smallest scales where…

Active fluids, such as suspensions of microswimmers, are known to self-organize into complex spatio-temporal flow patterns. An intriguing example is mesoscale turbulence, a state of dynamic vortex structures exhibiting a characteristic…

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We investigate localization and persistent currents in a helical tight-binding lattice subject to two independent magnetic fluxes and a quasiperiodic on-site potential. Working with non-interacting, spinless fermions under periodic boundary…

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We investigate the role of linear mechanisms in the emergence of nonlinear horizontal self-propelled states of a heaving foil in a quiescent fluid. Two states are analyzed: a periodic state of unidirectional motion and a quasi-periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-14 Luis Benetti Ramos , Olivier Marquet , Michel Bergmann , Angelo Iollo

We study modulational stability and instability in the Whitham equation, combining the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, and modified to permit the effects of surface tension and constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

Linear stability theory (LST) is often used to model the large-scale flow structures in the turbulent mixing region and near pressure field of high-speed jets. For perfectly-expanded single round jets, these models predict the dominance of…

We demonstrate that in-bulk vortex localized modes, and their surface half-vortex ("horseshoe") counterparts self-trap in two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear optical systems with $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric photonic lattices (PLs). The respective…

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Motivated by experiments performed in superfluid helium, we study numerically the motion of toroidal bundles of vortex filaments in an inviscid fluid. We find that the evolution of these large-scale vortex structures involves the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 D. H. Wacks , A. W. Baggaley , C. F. Barenghi

Toroidal modes in the form of so-called Hopfions, with two independent winding numbers, a hidden one (twist, s), which characterizes a circular vortex thread embedded into a three-dimensional soliton, and the vorticity around the vertical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. V. Kartashov , B. A. Malomed , Y. Shnir , L. Torner

We investigate the stability of a uniform elliptical vortex in a two-dimensional incompressible Euler fluid. It's demonstrated that for small eccentricities, the vortex relaxes to a core-halo structure that undergoes rigid rotation with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-30 Calvin Alexandre Fracassi Farias , Renato Pakter , Yan Levin

We demonstrate that two-dimensional two-component bright solitons of an annular shape, carrying vorticities $(m,\pm m)$ in the components, may be stable in media with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity, including the \textit{hidden-vorticity}…

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Ocean submesoscales, flows with characteristic size around 10 m - 10 km, are transitional between the larger, rotationally-constrained mesoscale and three-dimensional turbulence. In this paper we present simulations of a submesoscale ocean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Erin Atkinson , James McWilliams , Nicolas Grisouard

The stability of Marangoni roll convection in a liquid-gas system with deformable interface is studied in the case when there is a nonlinear interaction between two modes of Marangoni instability: long-scale surface deformations and…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 A. A. Golovin , A. A. Nepomnyashchy , L. M. Pismen , H. Riecke

Complex solitary waves composed of intersecting vortex lines are predicted in a channeled superfluid. Their shapes in a cylindrical trap include a cross, spoke wheels, and Greek $\Phi$, and trace the nodal lines of unstable vibration modes…

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