Numerical Study of a Flow of Regular Planar Curves That Develop Singularities at Finite Time

DOI10.1137/080718693MaRDI QIDQ5189587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francisco de la Hoz

Publication date 17 March 2010

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1153

zbMATH Keywords

numerical integrationspectral methodsformation of singularitiesvortex patchesnumerical analysis of PDEs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

Abstract: In this paper, we will study the following geometric flow, obtained by Goldstein and Petrich while considering the evolution of a vortex patch in the plane under Euler's equations, X_t = -k_s n - (1/2) k^2 T, with s being the arc-length parameter and k the curvature. Perelman and Vega proved that this flow has a one-parameter family of regular solutions that develop a corner-shaped singularity at finite time. We will give a method to reproduce numerically the evolution of those solutions, as well as the formation of the corner, showing several properties associated to them.

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