Three-dimensional stability of Burgers vortices

DOI10.1007/S00220-010-1132-6zbMATH Open1218.35163arXiv1002.2489OpenAlexW3105526344MaRDI QIDQ629911FDOQ629911

Authors: Thierry Gallay, Yasunori Maekawa 

Publication date: 10 March 2011

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Burgers vortices are explicit stationary solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations which are often used to describe the vortex tubes observed in numerical simulations of three-dimensional turbulence. In this model, the velocity field is a two-dimensional perturbation of a linear straining flow with axial symmetry. The only free parameter is the Reynolds number $Re=Gamma/u$, where $Gamma$ is the total circulation of the vortex and $u$ is the kinematic viscosity. The purpose of this paper is to show that Burgers vortex is asymptotically stable with respect to general three-dimensional perturbations, for all values of the Reynolds number. This definitive result subsumes earlier studies by various authors, which were either restricted to small Reynolds numbers or to two-dimensional perturbations. Our proof relies on the crucial observation that the linearized operator at Burgers vortex has a simple and very specific dependence upon the axial variable. This allows to reduce the full linearized equations to a vectorial two-dimensional problem, which can be treated using an extension of the techniques developped in earlier works. Although Burgers vortices are found to be stable for all Reynolds numbers, the proof indicates that perturbations may undergo an important transient amplification if $Re$ is large, a phenomenon that was indeed observed in numerical simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2489

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic stabilityNavier-Stokes equationBurgers vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Fundamentals of turbulence (76F02)

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