On vortex stretching for anti-parallel axisymmetric flows (Q6913373)

In this work, the authors study axisymmetric incompressible inviscid flows without swirl in \(\mathbb{R}^3\), assuming that the axial vorticity is non-positive in the upper half-space and odd with respect to the vertical coordinate -- corresponding to the head-on collision of anti-parallel vortex rings. Under these conditions, the authors prove the monotonic and unbounded growth of the vorticity impulse in the upper half-space. As a consequence, they demonstrate infinite growth of Sobolev norms for certain smooth compactly supported vorticity solutions in \(\mathbb{R}^3\).