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We use numerical simulations to study the relation between the velocity of the Local Group and its gravitational acceleration. This relation serves as a test for the kinematic origin of the CMB dipole and as a method for estimating beta. We…
As a model for vortex-wall interactions, we consider the two-dimensional incompressible Navier--Stokes equations in the half-plane $R^2_+$ with no-slip boundary condition and point vortices as initial data. We focus on the paradigmatic…
We prove local higher-order asymptotics for extreme water waves with vorticity near stagnation points. We obtain that the behaviour of solutions and their regularity depend substantially on the vorticity. In particular, we show that extreme…
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Vorticity is central to the nature of, and dynamical processes in turbulence, including turbulence in astrophysical fluids. The results of \cite{Raymond20a,Raymond20b} on vorticity in the post-shock fluid of the Cygnus Loop supernova…
The theoretical understanding of density waves in disk galaxies starts from the classical WKB perturbative analysis of tight-winding perturbations, the key assumption being that the potential due to the density wave is approximately radial.…
The search for solutions to the theory of weakly non-linear internal gravity wave turbulence is an active research topic. It is notably stimulated by the fact that this regime could drive fine-scale ocean dynamics for which the…
An explicit expression for the vortex velocity field as a function of the order parameter field is derived for the case of point defects in the O(n) symmetric time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model. This expression is used to find the vortex…