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Nonlinear Orbital Stability for Planar Vortex Patches

Analysis of PDEs 2018-03-06 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we prove nonlinear orbital stability for steady vortex patches that maximize the kinetic energy among isovortical rearrangements in a planar bounded domain. As a result, nonlinear stability for an isolated vortex patch is proved. The proof is based on conservation of energy and vorticity, which is an analogue of the classical Liapunov function method.

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@article{arxiv.1803.01453,
  title  = {Nonlinear Orbital Stability for Planar Vortex Patches},
  author = {Daomin Cao and Guodong Wang and Jie Wan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01453},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages

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