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By folding nonautonomous differential systems in the plane to scalar differential equations, a sufficient condition for the non-occurrence of chaotic behavior is obtained.
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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…
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