The long way of a viscous vortex dipole

DOI10.1007/S00205-026-02169-5MaRDI QIDQ6837970zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors M. Dolce, Thierry Gallay

Publication date 25 March 2026

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00205-026-02169-5

zbMATH Keywords

vorticity equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Self-similar solutions to PDEs (35C06) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible viscous fluids (76D03) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

Review text

The authors consider the evolution of a viscous vortex dipole on the plane, originating from a pair of point vortices with opposite circulations. In this regime an accurate approximation of the solution in the form of a two-parameter asymptotic expansion involving the aspect ratio of the dipole and the inverse Reynold number is constructed. This improves upon previous results. As an application, the authors provide a rigorous justification of an existing formula which gives the leading order correction to the translation speed of the dipole due to finite size effects.

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