Eroding dipoles and vorticity growth for Euler flows in R^3: axisymmetric flow without swirl

DOI10.1017/JFM.2016.573zbMATH Open1454.76032arXiv1512.07898OpenAlexW3103684308WikidataQ57946371 ScholiaQ57946371MaRDI QIDQ4975282FDOQ4975282

Authors: Stephen Childress, Andrew D. Gilbert, Paul Valiant 

Publication date: 4 August 2017

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A review of analyses based upon anti-parallel vortex structures suggests that structurally stable vortex structures with eroding circulation may offer a path to the study of rapid vorticity growth in solutions of Euler's equations in $scriptstyle{mathbbR}^3$. We examine here the possible formation of such a structure in axisymmetric flow without swirl, leading to maximal growth of vorticity as $t^{4/3}$. Our study suggests that the optimizing flow giving the $t^{4/3}$ growth mimics an exact solution of Euler's equations representing an eroding toroidal vortex dipole which locally conserves kinetic energy. The dipole cross-section is a perturbation of the classical Sadovskii dipole having piecewise constant vorticity, which breaks the symmetry of closed streamlines. The structure of this perturbed Sadovskii dipole is analyzed asymptotically at large times, and its predicted properties are verified numerically.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07898

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zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicsvortex flowsvortex instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euler equations (35Q31) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

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