Finiteness of fixed equilibrium configurations of point vortices in the plane with a background flow

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/27/10/2445zbMATH Open1302.37053arXiv1409.2284OpenAlexW3104155174MaRDI QIDQ2925979FDOQ2925979

Authors: Pak-Leong Cheung, Tuen Wai Ng 

Publication date: 29 October 2014

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a dynamic system consisting of $n$ point vortices in an ideal plane fluid with a steady, incompressible and} irrotational background flow, a more physically significant definition of a fixed equilibrium configuration is suggested. Under this new definition, if the complex polynomial $w$ that determines the aforesaid background flow is non-constant, we have found an attainable generic upper bound smash{$fr(m+n-1)!(m-1)!,n_1!cdots{n}_{i_0}!$} for the number of fixed equilibrium configurations. Here, $m=degw$, $i_0$ is the number of species, and each $n_i$ is the number of vortices in a species. We transform the rational function system arisen from} fixed equilibria into a polynomial system, whose form is good enough to apply the BKK theory (named after D. N. Bernshtein, A. G. Khovanskii and A. G. Kushnirenko) to show the finiteness of its number of solutions. Having this finiteness, the required bound follows from B'ezout's theorem or the BKK root count by T. Y. Li and X.-S. Wang.}

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2284

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) (n)-body problems (70F10) Polynomials, factorization in commutative rings (13P05) Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99)

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