The Godbillon-Vey invariant as topological vorticity compression and obstruction to steady flow in ideal fluids

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2019.0851MaRDI QIDQ5161004zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Machon

Publication date 29 October 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09992

zbMATH Keywords

applied mathematicsfluid dynamicsfluid mechanicsfoliationshelicitytopology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

Abstract: If the vorticity field of an ideal fluid is tangent to a foliation, additional conservation laws arise. For a class of zero-helicity vorticity fields the Godbillon-Vey (GV) invariant of foliations is defined and is shown to be an invariant purely of the vorticity, becoming a higher-order helicity-type invariant of the flow. GV non-zero gives both a global topological obstruction to steady flow and, in a particular form, a local obstruction. GV is interpreted as helical compression and stretching of vortex lines. Examples are given where the value of GV is determined by a set of distinguished closed vortex lines.

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