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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

It is well-known that the dynamics of vortices in an ideal incompressible two-dimensional fluid contained in a bounded not necessarily simply connected smooth domain is described by the Kirchhoff--Routh point vortex system. In this paper,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Stefano Ceci , Christian Seis

Motivated by applications to vortex rings, we study the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations without swirl, using scale invariant function spaces. If the axisymmetric vorticity is integrable with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Thierry Gallay , Vladimir Sverak

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

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

This paper investigates the dynamics of time-periodic Euler flows in multi-connected, planar fluid regions which are ``stirred'' by the moving boundaries. The classical Helmholtz theorem on the transport of vorticity implies that if the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Philip Boyland

A large ensemble of quantum vortices in a superfluid may itself be treated as a novel kind of fluid that exhibits anomalous hydrodynamics. Here we consider the dynamics of vortex clusters with thermal friction, and present an analytic…

Kinetic helicity is one of the invariants of the Euler equations that is associated with the topology of vortex lines within the fluid. In superfluids, the vorticity is concentrated along vortex filaments. In this setting, helicity would be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-01 R. Hänninen , N. Hietala , H. Salman

In this paper, we are concerned with the uniqueness and nonlinear stability of vortex rings for the 3D Euler equation. By utilizing Arnold 's variational principle for steady states of Euler equations and concentrated compactness method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Daomin Cao , Shanfa Lai , Guolin Qin , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

This article investigates small oscillations of a vortex ring with zero thickness that evolves under the Local Induction Equation (LIE). We deduce the differential equation that describes the dynamics of these oscillations. We suggest the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 S. V. Talalov

We consider a nonlinear model equation describing the motion of a vortex filament immersed in an incompressible and inviscid fluid. In the present problem setting, we also take into account the effect of external flow. We prove the unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Masashi Aiki , Tatsuo Iguchi

In this paper, we are concerned with nonlinear desingularization of steady vortex rings in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with given general nonlinearity $f$. Using the improved vorticity method, we construct a family of steady vortex rings which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Daomin Cao , Jie Wan , Guodong Wang , Weicheng Zhan

This article revisits the instability of sharp shear interfaces, also called vortex sheets, in incompressible fluid flows. We study the Birkhoff-Rott equation, which describes the motion of vortex sheets according to the incompressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-06 Ryan Murray , Galen Wilcox

An effort has been made to solve the Cauchy problem of the Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space by two methods. It is proved that the sum of the three vorticity components is a time-invariant in fluid motion. It has been proved that,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-18 F. Lam

We study vortex patches for the 2D incompressible Euler equations. Prior works on this problem take the support of the vorticity (i.e., the vortex patch) to be a bounded region. We instead consider the horizontally periodic setting. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-30 David M. Ambrose , Fazel Hadadifard , James P. Kelliher

We introduce a notion of stability for non-autonomous Hamiltonian flows on two-dimensional annular surfaces. This notion of stability is designed to capture the sustained twisting of particle trajectories. The main Theorem is applied to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Theodore D. Drivas , Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

Ring vortices are efficient at transporting fluid. They are often produced by ejecting a volume of fluid through a circular orifice. The impulse given to the vortex rings results in a propulsive force on the generator. Propulsive vortex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-17 Guillaume de Guyon , Karen Mulleners

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

Vortex rings self-propelling in superfluid 4He are shown to be driven unstable by a toroidal normal fluid flow. This instability has qualitative similarities with the Donnelly-Glaberson instability of Kelvin waves on a vortex filament…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-22 Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

We consider a single Abelian Higgs vortex on a surface {\Sigma} whose Gaussian curvature K is small relative to the size of the vortex, and analyse vortex motion by using geodesics on the moduli space of static solutions. The moduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniele Dorigoni , Maciej Dunajski , Nicholas S. Manton