On the existence of convex classical solutions to a generalized Prandtl-Batchelor free-boundary problem. II

DOI10.1007/S00033-002-8163-6MaRDI QIDQ1865585zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Acker

Publication date 27 March 2003

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-002-8163-6

zbMATH Keywords

convex, steady state vorticity localization in potential flowexistence of convex classical solutionsPrandtl-Batchelor free boundary problemsvortex corevortex-sheet skin effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

Review text

For Part I, cf. [the author, ibid. 49, 1-30 (1998; Zbl 0903.35093)]. We give an analytical proof of the existence of convex classical solutions for the (convex) Prandtl-Batchelor free boundary problem in fluid dynamics. In this problem, a convex vortex core of constant vorticity \(\mu>0\) is embedded in a closed irrotational flow inside a closed, convex vessel in \(\mathbb{R}^2\). The unknown boundary of the vortex core is a closed curve \(\Gamma\) along which \((v^+)^2-(v^-)^2=\Lambda\), where \(v^+\) and \(v^-\) denote, respectively, the exterior and interior flow-speeds along \(\Gamma\), and \(\Lambda\) is a given constant. Our existence results all apply to the natural multidimensional mathematical generalization of the above problem. The present existence theorems are the only ones available for the Prandtl-Batchelor problem for \(\Lambda>0\), because (a) the author's prior existence treatment was restricted to the case where \(\Lambda<0\), and because (b) there is no analytical existence theory available for this problem in the nonconvex case, regardless of the sign of \(\Lambda\).

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