Vorticity alignment results for the three-dimensional Euler and Navier - Stokes equations

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/10/6/013zbMath0912.76020arXivchao-dyn/9709003MaRDI QIDQ3841237

M. Heritage, B. Galanti, John D. Gibbon

Publication date: 28 October 1998

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9709003

zbMATH Keywords

Burgers vortex; attracting fixed point; Hessian matrix; vorticity vector; Burgers-like structures; Lagrangian fixed-point solutions; positive vortex stretching; quasi-one-dimensional tubes; quasi-two-dimensional sheets; shear-layer solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

35Q30: Navier-Stokes equations

76F05: Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence

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