Multiscale Approximation of Vortex Patches

DOI10.1137/S0036139997319785MaRDI QIDQ4943910zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Albert Cohen, Raphaël Danchin

Publication date 19 March 2000

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/s0036139997319785

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive discretizationcontour dynamicsEuler systemevolution of singularitiesmultiscale numerical methodscalar vorticityvortex patchwavelet decompositions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nontrigonometric harmonic analysis involving wavelets and other special systems (42C40) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for the numerical solution of initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M50) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22)

Review text

A vortex patch is a particular solution of the Euler system for which the scalar vorticity \(\omega(x,t)= \text{curl}(u(x, t))\) is at all times \(t\geq 0\) the characteristic function of a domain \(\Omega_t\), variable in time. The function \(\omega(x,t)\) satisfies the equation \(\partial_t\omega+ (u\cdot \nabla)\omega= 0\), \(\omega(x,0)= \omega_0(x)\). In the above relations \(x= (x^1,x^2)\), \(u(x,t)\) is the velocity of the fluid, and \(\omega= \partial_1 u^2-\partial_2 u^1\); the motion is, therefore, two-dimensional. The authors analyze the evolution of singularities of vortex patches. In the introductory section, they formulate the problem and review the results in the literature obtained up to now. Section 2 presents the derivation of equations governing vortex patch evolution, section 3 introduces a class of wavelet decompositions for an adaptive discretization of this nonlinear problem, section 4 describes the discretization algorithm, and the final section 5 presents the corresponding numerical results illustrated by many tables and plots.

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