Disturbing vortices
Inviscid spatially compact vortices (such as Rankine vortex) have discrete Kelvin modes. For these modes, the critical radius, at which the rotation frequency of the wave matches the angular velocity of the fluid, lies outside the vortex core. When such a vortex is not perfectly compact, but has a weak vorticity distribution beyond the core, these Kelvin disturbances are singular at the critical radius and become `quasi-modes'. These are not true eigenmodes but have streamfunction perturbations that decay exponentially with time while the associated vorticity wraps up into a tight spiral without decay.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEHere the authors use a matched asymptotic expansion to obtain a simplified description of weakly nonlinear externally forced quasi-modes. They consider the excitation and subsequent evolution of finite-amplitude quasi-modes excited with azimuthal wavenumber 2. Provided the forcing amplitude is below a certain critical amplitude, the quasi-mode decays and the disturbed vortex returns to axisymmetry. If the amplitude of the forcing is above a critical value, then nonlinear effects arrest the decay and cat's eye patterns form. Thus the vortex is permanently deformed into a tripolar structure.
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