The steady incompressible jet flows issuing from a finitely long nozzle (Q2656284)

The authors consider the well-posedness of 2D irrotational, inviscid, incompressible jet flows issuing from a finitely long nozzle. The fluid flow is modelled by the stationary, irrotational, incompressible Euler equations, leading to a free boundary problem for the stream function of the fluid velocity, where the free boundary is the interface between air and the fluid issuing from the nozzle. In the first main result, Theorem 2.1, the authors consider a given finitely long nozzle, horizontal velocity at the inlet and atmospheric pressure outside the nozzle, and they show the existence of a smooth solution. A key point in the result is a suitable choice of compatibility conditions on the boundary datum at the inlet. The proof adopts a variational approach of \textit{H. W. Alt} et al. [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 81, 97--149 (1983; Zbl 0515.76017); Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 35, 29--68 (1982; Zbl 0515.76018)], which was developed for the case of an infinitely long nozzle. The second main result, Theorem 3.1, gives a unique solution to the symmetric jet flow problem for a given finitely long nozzle, horizontal velocity in the inlet and atmospheric pressure.