Abstract: We consider relative equilibrium solutions of the two-dimensional Euler equations in which the vorticity is concentrated on a union of finite-length vortex sheets. Using methods of complex analysis, more specifically the theory of the Riemann-Hilbert problem, a general approach is proposed to find such equilibria which consists of two steps: first, one finds a geometric configuration of vortex sheets ensuring that the corresponding circulation density is real-valued and also vanishes at all sheet endpoints such that the induced velocity field is well-defined; then, the circulation density is determined by evaluating a certain integral formula. As an illustration of this approach, we construct a family of rotating equilibria involving different numbers of straight vortex sheets rotating about a common center of rotation and with endpoints at the vertices of a regular polygon. This equilibrium generalizes the well-known solution involving single rotating vortex sheet. With the geometry of the configuration specified analytically, the corresponding circulation densities are obtained in terms of a integral expression which in some cases lends itself to an explicit evaluation. It is argued that as the number of sheets in the equilibrium configuration increases to infinity, the equilibrium converges in a certain distributional sense to a hollow vortex bounded by a constant-intensity vortex sheet, which is also a known equilibrium solution of the two-dimensional Euler equations.
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