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We prove the existence of time-periodic leapfrogging vortex rings for the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations, thereby providing a rigorous realization of a phenomenon first conjectured by Helmholtz (1858). In the leapfrogging…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Claudia García , Zineb Hassainia , Taoufik Hmidi

Leapfrogging motion of vortex rings sharing the same axis of symmetry was first predicted by Helmholtz in his famous work on the Euler equation for incompressible fluids. Its justification in that framework remains an open question to date.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Robert L. Jerrard , Didier Smets

The evolution of highly concentrated vorticity around rings in the three-dimensional axisymmetric Euler equations is studied in a regime for which the leapfrogging dynamics predicted by Helmholtz is expected to occur. We provide in this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Martin Donati , Lars Eric Hientzsch , Christophe Lacave , Evelyne Miot

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 paper, we investigate the time evolution of helical vortices without swirl for the incompressible Euler equations in $\mathbb R^3$ under general initial assumptions. Assume the initial helical vorticity is sharply concentrated in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Daomin Cao , Junhong Fan , Guolin Qin , Jie Wan

In the present note, we solved numerically the viscous vorticity equation of the initial-boundary value problem describing the classic Helmholtz phenomena of vortex interaction. In the leapfrogging of vortex pairs, we demonstrate the fact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Lam

Systems of coaxial vortex pairs in an inviscid flow give rise to complex dynamics, with motions ranging from ordered to chaotic. This complexity arises due to the problem's high nonlinearity and numerous degrees of freedom. We analyze the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-12 Christiana Mavroyiakoumou , Wenzheng Shi

The main goal of this paper is to explore the leapfrogging phenomenon in the inviscid planar flows. We show for 2d Euler equations that under suitable constraints, four concentrated vortex patches leapfrog for all time. When observed from a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Zineb Hassainia , Taoufik Hmidi , Nader Masmoudi

The leapfrogging of coaxial vortex rings is a famous effect which has been noticed since the times of Helmholtz. Recent advances in ultra-cold atomic gases show that the effect can now be studied in quantum fluids. The strong confinement…

Two vortex rings can form a localized configuration whereby they continually pass through one another in an alternating fashion. This phenomenon is called leapfrogging. Using parameters suitable for superfluid helium-4, we describe a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-14 N. Hietala , R. Hänninen , H. Salman , C. F. Barenghi

The dynamics of a circular thin vortex ring and a sphere moving along the symmetry axis of the ring in an inviscid incompressible fluid is studied on the basis of Euler's equations of motion. The equations of motion for position and radius…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-26 B. U. Felderhof

We propose and analyze a system of nonlinear partial differential equations describing the motion of a pair of vortex filaments. Furthermore, for a pair of coaxial circular vortex filaments, we derive a condition for leapfrogging to occur…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Masashi Aiki

The leapfrogging motion of smoke rings is a three dimensional version of the motion that in two dimensions leads to exotic exchange statistics. The statistical phase factor can be computed using the hydrodynamical Euler equation, which is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antti J. Niemi

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

We consider a model that approximates vortex rings in the axisymmetric 3D Euler equation by the movement of almost rigid bodies described by Newtonian mechanics. We assume that the bodies have a circular cross-section and that the fluid is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-02 David Meyer

Two prized papers, one by Augustin Cauchy in 1815, presented to the French Academy and the other by Hermann Hankel in 1861, presented to G\"ottingen University, contain major discoveries on vorticity dynamics whose impact is now quickly…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Uriel Frisch , Barbara Villone

In this work we study the dynamical behavior of two interacting vortex pairs, each one of them consisting of two point vortices with opposite circulation in the 2d plane. The vortices are considered as effective particles and their…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-31 Brandon Whitchurch , Panayotis. G. Kevrekidis , Vassilis Koukouloyannis

Steady vortices for the three-dimensional Euler equation for inviscid incompressible flows and for the shallow water equation are constructed and showed to tend asymptotically to singular vortex filaments. The construction is based on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Sébastien de Valeriola , Jean Van Schaftingen

Three coaxial quantized vortex rings in a Bose-Einstein condensate exhibit aperiodic leapfrogging dynamics. It is found that such circular vortex rings are dynamically unstable against deformation breaking axial rotational symmetry. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-17 Mayumi Ikuta , Yumi Sugano , Hiroki Saito

The dynamics of vortex ring pairs in the homogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is studied. The generation of numerically-exact solutions of traveling vortex rings is described and their translational velocity compared to revised…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-12-03 R. M. Caplan , J. D. Talley , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis
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