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Compactness and stability for planar vortex-pairs with prescribed impulse

Analysis of PDEs 2020-02-28 v1 Functional Analysis Optimization and Control

Abstract

Concentration-compactness is used to prove compactness of maximising sequences for a variational problem governing symmetric steady vortex-pairs in a uniform planar ideal fluid flow, where the kinetic energy is to be maximised and the constraint set comprises the set of all equimeasurable rearrangements of a given function (representing vorticity) that have prescribed impulse (lnear momentum). A form of orbital stability is deduced.

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@article{arxiv.2002.12260,
  title  = {Compactness and stability for planar vortex-pairs with prescribed impulse},
  author = {G. R. Burton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12260},
  year   = {2020}
}
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