Singularities of steady axisymmetric free surface flows with gravity

DOI10.1002/CPA.21514MaRDI QIDQ5495871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eugen Vărvărucă, Georg S. Weiss

Publication date 7 August 2014

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3682

zbMATH Keywords

Euler equationsincompressible fluidsblow up analysisirrotational flow without swirl

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Euler equations (35Q31) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Abstract: We consider a steady axisymmetric solution of the Euler equations for a fluid (incompressible and with zero vorticity) with a free surface, acted on only by gravity. We analyze stagnation points as well as points on the axis of symmetry. At points on the axis of symmetry which are not stagnation points, constant velocity motion is the only blow-up profile consistent with the invariant scaling of the equation. This suggests the presence of downward pointing cusps at those points. At stagnation points on the axis of symmetry, the unique blow-up profile consistent with the invariant scaling of the equation is Garabedian's pointed bubble solution with water above air. Thus at stagnation points on the axis of symmetry with no water above the stagnation point, the invariant scaling of the equation cannot be the right scaling. A fine analysis of the blow-up velocity yields that in the case that the surface is described by an injective curve, the velocity scales almost like $sqrt{X}^2+Y^2+Z^2$ and is asymptotically given by the velocity field ${\displaystyle }$V(sqrt{X^2+Y^2},Z)=c (-sqrt{X^2+Y^2}, 2Z)${\displaystyle }$ with a nonzero constant $c$. The last result relies on a frequency formula in combination with a concentration compactness result for the axially symmetric Euler equations by J.-M. Delort. While the concentration compactness result alone does not lead to strong convergence in general, we prove the convergence to be strong in our application.

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