Generalized Helmholtz–Kirchhoff Model for Two-Dimensional Distributed Vortex Motion

DOI10.1137/080715056MaRDI QIDQ3624504zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Raymond J. Nagem, G. Sandri, David Uminsky, C. Eugene Wayne

Publication date 30 April 2009

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0475

zbMATH Keywords

fluid dynamicsNavier-Stokes equationsvortex dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Viscous vortex flows (76D17) Vortex methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M23)

Abstract: The two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations are rewritten as a system of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations. These equations describe the evolution of the moments of an expansion of the vorticity with respect to Hermite functions and of the centers of vorticity concentrations. We prove the convergence of this expansion and show that in the zero viscosity and zero core size limit we formally recover the Helmholtz-Kirchhoff model for the evolution of point-vortices. The present expansion systematically incorporates the effects of both viscosity and finite vortex core size. We also show that a low-order truncation of our expansion leads to the representation of the flow as a system of interacting Gaussian (i.e. Oseen) vortices which previous experimental work has shown to be an accurate approximation to many important physical flows [9].

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