Generic Hydrodynamic Instability of Curl Eigenfields

DOI10.1137/04060651XMaRDI QIDQ5700598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John B. Etnyre, Robert Ghrist

Publication date 28 October 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306310

zbMATH Keywords

contact homologyEuler equationsReeb field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability and instability of nonparallel flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E09)

Abstract: We prove that for generic geometry, the curl-eigenfield solutions to the steady Euler equations on the three torus are all hydrodynamically unstable (linear, L^2 norm). The proof involves a marriage of contact topological methods with the instability criterion of Friedlander-Vishik. An application of contact homology is the crucial step.

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