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We study the formation and the dynamics of vortex lines in rotating scalar dark matter halos, focusing on models with quartic repulsive self-interactions. In the nonrelativistic regime, vortex lines and their lattices arise from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Ph. Brax , P. Valageas

We consider a two-dimensional, pure capillary drop of nearly-circular shape, having constant vorticity. We write the Craig-Sulem equations on the unit circle, then on the flat torus. We show their Hamiltonian structure and we then observe…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Giuseppe La Scala

A general formulation is presented for studying the motion of buoyant vortices in a homogeneous ambient fluid. It extends the well-known Hamiltonian framework for interacting homogeneous point vortices to include buoyancy effects acting on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jeff Carpenter , Anirban Guha

We obtained new periodic solutions in the problems of three and four point vortices moving on a plane. In the case of three vortices, the system is reduced to a Hamiltonian system with one degree of freedom, and it is integrable. In the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 A. V. Borisov , I. S. Mamaev , A. A. Kilin

We show that media with inhomogeneous defocusing cubic nonlinearity growing toward the periphery can support a variety of stable vortex clusters nested in a common localized envelope. Nonrotating symmetric clusters are built of an even…

The dynamics of ultralight dark matter with non-negligible self-interactions are determined by a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation rather than by the Vlasov equation of collisionless particles. This leads to wave-like effects, such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

Systems whose potential energies consists of pieces that scale as r^-2 together with pieces that scale as r^2, show no violent relaxation to Virial equilibrium but may pulsate at considerable amplitude for ever. Despite this pulsation these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Pichon , D. Lynden-Bell , J. Pichon , R. Lynden-Bell

We study the linear and nonlinear stability of relative equilibria in the planar N-vortex problem, adapting the approach of Moeckel from the corresponding problem in celestial mechanics. After establishing some general theory, a topological…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Gareth E. Roberts

The restricted three-vortex problem is investigated with one of the point vortices fixed in the plane. The motion of the free vortex having zero circulation is explored from a rotating frame of reference within which the free vortex with…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Sreethin Sreedharan K , Priyanka Shukla

We investigate the motion of point vortices on the Mobius band and Klein bottle. Since these are non-orientable surfaces, the standard Hamiltonian approach does not apply. We therefore begin by establishing a modified Hamiltonian approach…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Nataliya A. Balabanova , James Montaldi

It is shown that the hydrodynamics equations for a thin spherical liquid layer are satisfied by the stream function of a pair of antipodal vortices-APV, in contrast to the stream function of a single point vortex on a sphere with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Igor I. Mokhov , Sergey G. Chefranov , Alexander G. Chefranov

The Navier-Stokes-Coriolis system is a simple model for rotating fluids, which allows to study the influence of the Coriolis force on the dynamics of three-dimensional flows. In this paper, we consider the NSC system in an infinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-12 Thierry Gallay , Violaine Roussier-Michon

The paper studies the system of a rigid body interacting dynamically with point vortices in a perfect fluid. For arbitrary value of vortex strengths and circulation around the cylinder the system is shown to be Hamiltonian (the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Borisov , I. S. Mamaev , S. M. Ramodanov

This article studies the N-vortex problem in the plane with positive vorticities. After an investigation of some properties for normalised relative equilibria of the system, we use symplectic capacity theory to show that, there exist…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Qun Wang

We analyse the motion of a sphere that rolls without slipping on a conical surface having its axis in the direction of the constant gravitational field of the Earth. This nonholonomic system admits a solution in terms of quadratures. We…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I Campos , J L Fernández-Chapou , A L Salas-Brito , C A Vargas

Morse theoretical ideas are applied to the study of relative equilibria in the planar $n$-vortex problem. For the case of positive circulations, we prove that the Morse index of a critical point of the Hamiltonian restricted to a level…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gareth E. Roberts

We study the Boussinesq approximation for rapidly rotating stably-stratified fluids in a three dimensional infinite layer with either stress-free or periodic boundary conditions in the vertical direction. For initial conditions satisfying a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Ryan Goh , C. Eugene Wayne

The system of four point vortices in the plane has relative equilibria that behave as composite particles, in the case where three of the vortices have strength $-\Gamma/3$ and one of the vortices has strength $\Gamma$. These relative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. W. Patrick

We compare dynamical and energetical stability criteria for vortex rings. It is argued that vortex rings will be intrinsically unstable against perturbations with short wavelengths below a critical wavelength, because the canonical vortex…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe R. Fischer , Nils Schopohl

We present the theoretical prediction of spontaneous rotating vortex rings in a parametrically driven quantum fluid of polaritons -- coherent superpositions of coupled quantum well excitons and microcavity photons. These rings arise not…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-29 J. O. Hamp , A. K. Balin , F. M. Marchetti , D. Sanvitto , M. H. Szymanska