Dynamical aspects of a restricted three-vortex problem

DOI10.1093/IMAMAT/HXAB043zbMATH Open1486.76019arXiv1910.12646OpenAlexW3210091332MaRDI QIDQ5070360FDOQ5070360

Authors: Sreethin Sreedharan Kallyadan, Priyanka Shukla 

Publication date: 11 April 2022

Published in: IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The restricted three-vortex problem is investigated with one of the point vortices fixed in the plane. The motion of the free vortex having zero circulation is explored from a rotating frame of reference within which the free vortex with non-zero circulation remains stationary. By using the basic dynamical system theory, it is shown that the vortex motion is always bounded and any configuration of vortices must go through at least one collinear state. The present analysis reveals that the inter-vortex distances in any non-fixed configuration of vortices are either periodic in time or aperiodic in time with vortices asymptotically converging to a collinear fixed configuration. The initial conditions required for different types of motion are explained in detail by exploiting the Hamiltonian structure of the problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12646

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systempoint vortexvortex interactiondynamical system theoryfixed vortex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Complex variables methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M40)

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