Equilibria for the N-vortex-problem in a general bounded domain

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2015.08.055MaRDI QIDQ499231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Kuhl

Publication date 30 September 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.06225

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamics Kirchhoff-Routh path function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations (35-XX) Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX)

Abstract: This article is concerned with the study of existence and properties of stationary solutions for the dynamics of

N

point vortices in an idealised fluid constrained to a bounded two--dimen-sional domain

O m e g a

, which is governed by a Hamiltonian system [ left{�egin{aligned} Gamma_ifrac{d x_i}{d t} &=frac{partial H_Omega}{partial y_i}(z_1,dots,z_N)\ Gamma_ifrac{d y_i}{d t} &=-frac{partial H_Omega}{partial x_i}(z_1,dots,z_N) end{aligned} hspace{2cm} ext{where} z_i=(x_i,y_i), i=1,dots,N, ight. ] where

H_{O} m e g a (z) := s u m_{j = 1}^{N} G a m m a_{j}^{2} h (z_{j}) + s u m_{i, j = 1, i o t = j}^{N} G a m m a_{i} G a m m a_{j} G (z_{i}, z_{j})

is the so--called Kirchhoff--Routh--path function under various conditions on the "vorticities"

G a m m a_{i}

and various topological and geometrical assumptions on

O m e g a

. In particular, we will prove that (under an additional technical assumption) if it is possible to align the vortices along a line, such that the signs of the

G a m m a_{i}

are alternating and

| G a m m a_{i} |

is increasing,

H_{O} m e g a

has a critical point. If

O m e g a

is not simply connected, we are able to derive a critical point of

H_{O} m e g a

, if

s u m_{j i n J} G a m m a_{j}^{2} > s u m_{s u b s t a c k i, j i n J i o t = j} | G a m m a_{i} G a m m a_{j} |

for all

J s u b s e t 1, d o t s, N

,

| J | g e 2

.

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