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A classical problem in fluid dynamics concerns the interaction of multiple vortex rings sharing a common axis of symmetry in an incompressible, inviscid $3$-dimensional fluid. Helmholtz (1858) observed that a pair of similar thin, coaxial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Juan Davila , Manuel del Pino , Monica Musso , Juncheng Wei

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

Vortex rings are ubiquitous in fluids, with smoke rings being a familiar example. The interaction of multiple vortex rings produces complex dynamical behaviour, such as the leapfrogging motion first analysed by Helmholtz more than a century…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Antti J. Niemi , Paul Sutcliffe

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

We study the evolution of solutions to the 2D Euler equations whose vorticity is sharply concentrated in the Wasserstein sense around a finite number of points. Under the assumption that the vorticity is merely $L^p$ integrable for some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Stefano Ceci , Christian Seis

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

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

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

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

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

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…

We study the global-in-time dynamics of vortex rings for the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations, under the assumption of axisymmetric flows without swirl. For a broad class of initial data sharing only the macroscopic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Dengjun Guo , In-Jee Jeong , Lifeng Zhao

Vortex ring solutions are presented for the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which models the dynamics of a three-dimensional ferromagnet. The vortex rings propagate at constant speed along their symmetry axis and are characterized by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul Sutcliffe

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

In the present work, motivated by numerous recent experimental developments we revisit the dynamics of a single vortex ring in anisotropic harmonic traps. At the theoretical level, we start from a general Lagrangian dynamically capturing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-03 Christopher Ticknor , Wenlong Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this paper, we are concerned with nonlinear desingularization of steady vortex rings of three-dimensional incompressible Euler fluids. We focus on the case when the vorticity function has a simple discontinuity, which corresponding to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Daomin Cao , Jie Wan , Weicheng Zhan

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
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