Stability and interaction of vortices in two-dimensional viscous flows
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Publication:1760196
DOI10.3934/DCDSS.2012.5.1091zbMath1269.35027arXiv1203.0846OpenAlexW2963201616MaRDI QIDQ1760196
Publication date: 13 November 2012
Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The aim of these notes is to present in a comprehensive and relatively self-contained way some recent developments in the mathematical analysis of two-dimensional viscous flows. We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the whole plane, and assume that the initial vorticity is a finite measure. This general setting includes vortex patches, vortex sheets, and point vortices. We first prove the existence of a unique global solution, for any value of the viscosity parameter, and we investigate its long-time behavior. We next consider the particular case where the initial flow is a finite collection of point vortices. In that situation, we show that the solution behaves, in the vanishing viscosity limit, as a superposition of Oseen vortices whose centers evolve according to the Helmholtz-Kirchhoff point vortex system. The proof requires a careful stability analysis of the Oseen vortices in the large Reynolds number regime, as well as a precise computation of the deformations of the vortex cores due to mutual interactions.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0846
Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Viscous vortex flows (76D17) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07)
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