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In this work, we construct traveling wave solutions to the two-phase Euler equations, featuring a vortex sheet at the interface between the two phases. The inner phase exhibits a uniform vorticity distribution and may represent a vacuum,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 David Meyer , Christian Seis

We present an alpha-regularization of the Birkhoff-Rott equation, induced by the two-dimensional Euler-alpha equations, for the vortex sheet dynamics. We show the convergence of the solutions of Euler-alpha equations to a weak solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-01 Claude Bardos , Jasmine S. Linshiz , Edriss S. Titi

We are concerned with the nonlinear stability of vortex sheets for the relativistic Euler equations in three-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. This is a nonlinear hyperbolic problem with a characteristic free boundary. In this paper, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Gui-Qiang Chen , Paolo Secchi , Tao Wang

We construct co-rotating and traveling vortex sheets for 2D incompressible Euler equation, which are supported on several small closed curves. These examples represent a new type of vortex sheet solutions other than two known classes. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Daomin Cao , Guolin Qin , Changjun Zou

At the interface between two fluid layers in relative motion, infinitesimal fluctuations can be exponentially amplified, inducing vorticity and the breakdown of the laminar flow. This process, known as the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, is…

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 study theoretically nonlinear dynamics induced by shear-flow instability in segregated two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in terms of the Weber number, defined by extending the past theory on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-18 Haruya Kokubo , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

We are concerned with nonlinear stability and existence of two-dimensional current-vortex sheets in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics. This is a nonlinear hyperbolic initial-boundary value problem with characteristic free boundary. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Paola Trebeschi , Difan Yuan

This paper investigates the non-linear dynamics of horizontal shear instability in an incompressible, stratified and rotating fluid in the non-traditional $f$-plane, i.e. with the full Coriolis acceleration, using direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Camille Moisset , Paul Billant , Junho Park , Stéphane Mathis

We consider pairs of self-similar 2d vortex sheets forming cusps, equivalently single sheets merging into slip condition walls, as in classical Mach reflection at wedges. We derive from the Birkhoff-Rott equation a reduced model yielding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Volker Elling

We consider the rotating and translating equilibria of open finite vortex sheets with endpoints in two-dimensional potential flows. New results are obtained concerning the stability of these equilibrium configurations which complement…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Bartosz Protas , Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith , Takashi Sakajo

We show the short-time existence and nonlinear stability of vortex sheets for the nonisentropic compressible Euler equations in two spatial dimensions, based on the weakly linear stability result of Morando--Trebeschi (2008) [20]. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Alessandro Morando , Paola Trebeschi , Tao Wang

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 report here, for the first time, an observed instability of a Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) nature occurring in a fully three-dimensional (3D) current-vortex sheet at the fan plane of a 3D magnetic null point. The current-vortex layer forms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-09 P. F. Wyper , D. I. Pontin

The Birkhoff-Rott integral expresses the fluid velocity on a vortex sheet. This integral converges if certain quantities decay at horizontal infinity, but can also be summed over periodic images in the horizontally periodic case. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-12 David M. Ambrose

We present a numerical investigation of three-dimensional, short-wavelength linear instabilities in Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) vortices in homogeneous and stratified environments. The base flow, generated using two-dimensional numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-28 H. M. Aravind , Manikandan Mathur , Thomas Dubos

We consider the construction of linear instability of parallel shear flows, which was developed by Zhiwu Lin (SIAM J. Math. Anal. 35(2), 2003). We give an alternative simple proof in Sobolev setting of the problem, which exposes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Anuj Kumar , Wojciech Ożański

This paper analyzes the space of steady rotating solutions to the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations nearby vortex patch solutions satisfying a natural nondegeneracy condition. We address the question of desingularization and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Răzvan-Octavian Radu , Noah Stevenson

This paper concerns the study of some special ordered structures in turbulent flows. In particular, a systematic and relevant methodology is proposed to construct non trivial and non radial rotating vortices with non necessarily uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Claudia García , Taoufik Hmidi , Juan Soler

We demonstrate that numerical solutions of Burgers' equation can be obtained by a scale-totality algorithm for fluids of small viscosity (down to one billionth). Two sets of initial data, modelling simple shears and wall boundary layers,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-20 F. Lam