In this paper, we consider the sign-changing free boundary problem related to the uniformly rotating vortex patch solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations. We prove that the boundary of the vortex patch locally forms a $90^\circ$ corner near singular boundary points, if the patch is Lipschitz.
In this paper, we prove nonlinear stability of planar vortex patches concentrated near an isolated minimum point of the Robin function in a general bounded domain. These vortex patches are stationary solutions of the two-dimensinal incompressible Euler equations. The result is obtained by showing that these concentrated vortex patches are in fact isolated maximizers of the kinetic energy among isovortical patches.
The motion of incompressible and ideal fluids is studied in the plane. The stability in $L^1$ of circular vortex patches is established among the class of all bounded vortex patches of equal strength without any restriction on the size of the initial perturbation.
In this paper we prove the existence of steady multiple vortex patch solutions to the vortex-wave system in a planar bounded domain. The construction is performed by solving a certain variational problem for the vorticity and studying its asymptotic behavior as the vorticity strength goes to infinity.
In a companion paper, we gave a detailed account of the well-posedness theory for singular vortex patches. Here, we discuss the long-time dynamics of some of the classes of vortex patches we showed to be globally well-posed in the companion work. In particular, we give examples of time-periodic behavior, cusp formation in infinite time at an exponential rate, and spiral formation in infinite time.
In this paper, we prove nonlinear orbital stability for steady vortex patches that maximize the kinetic energy among isovortical rearrangements in a planar bounded domain. As a result, nonlinear stability for an isolated vortex patch is proved. The proof is based on conservation of energy and vorticity, which is an analogue of the classical Liapunov function method.
In this paper we consider steady vortex flows for the incompressible Euler equations in a planar bounded domain. By solving a variational problem for the vorticity, we construct steady double vortex patches with opposite signs concentrating at a strict local minimum point of the Kirchhoff-Routh function with $k=2$. Moreover, we show that such steady solutions are in fact local maximizers of the kinetic energy among isovortical patches, which correlates stability to uniqueness.
In this paper, we study the vortex patch problem in an ideal fluid in a planar bounded domain. By solving a certain minimization problem and studying the limiting behavior of the minimizer, we prove that for any harmonic function $q$ corresponding to a nontrivial irrotational flow, there exists a family of steady vortex patches approaching the set of extremum points of $q$ on the boundary of the domain. Furthermore, we show that each finite collection of strict extreme points of $q$ corresponds to a family of steady multiple vortex patches approaching it.
We construct a family of rotating vortex patches with fixed angular velocity for the two-dimensional Euler equations in a disk. As the vorticity strength goes to infinity, the limit of these rotating vortex patches is a rotating point vortex whose motion is described by the Kirchhoff-Routh equation. The construction is performed by solving a variational problem for the vorticity which is based on an adaption of Arnold's variational principle. We also prove nonlinear orbital stability of the set of maximizers in the variational problem under $L^p$ perturbation when $p\in[{3}/{2},+\infty)$.
In this note, we consider the radial symmetry property of rotating vortex patches for the 2D incompressible Euler equations in the unit disc. By choosing a suitable vector field to deform the patch, we show that each simply-connected rotating vortex patch $D$ with angular velocity $Ω$, $Ω\geq \max\{{1}/{2},({2 l^2})/{(1-l^2)^2}\}$ or $Ω\leq -({2 l^2})/{(1-l^2)^2}$, where $l=\sup_{x\in D}|x|$, must be a disc. The main idea of the proof, which has a variational flavor, comes from a very recent paper of Gómez-Serrano--Park--Shi--Yao, arXiv:1908.01722, where radial symmetry of rotating vortex patc…
This article concerns the equations of motion of perfect incompressible fluids in a 3-D, smooth, bounded, simply connected domain. We suppose that the curl of the initial velocity field is a vortex patch, and examine the classical problems of the existence of a solution, either locally or globally in time, and of the persistence of the initial regularity.
The main result is that given a generic self-similarly expanding configuration of 3 point vortices that start sufficiently far out, we can instead take compactly supported vorticity functions, and the resulting solution to 2D incompressible Euler will evolve like a nearby point vortex configuration for all time, with the size of the patches growing at most as $t^{1/4+ε}$ and the distance between them growing as $\sqrt{t}$.
In this paper, we derive some quantitative estimates for uniformly-rotating vortex patches. We prove that if a non-radial simply-connected patch $D$ is uniformly-rotating with small angular velocity $0 < Ω\ll 1$, then the outmost point of the patch must be far from the center of rotation, with distance at least of order $Ω^{-1/2}$. For $m$-fold symmetric simply-connected rotating patches, we show that their angular velocity must be close to $\frac{1}{2}$ for $m\gg 1$ with the difference at most $O(1/m)$, and also obtain estimates on $L^{\infty}$ norm of the polar graph which parametrizes the b…
This paper deals with the existence of $N$ vortex patches located at the vertex of a regular polygon with $N$ sides that rotate around the center of the polygon at a constant angular velocity. That is done for Euler and (SQG)$_β$ equations, with $β\in(0,1)$, but may be also extended to more general models. The idea is the desingularization of the Thomsom polygon for the $N$ point vortex system, that is, $N$ point vortices located at the vertex of a regular polygon with $N$ sides. The proof is based on the study of the contour dynamics equation combined with the application of the infinite dime…
We investiage the (slightly) super-critical 2-D Euler equations. The paper consists of two parts. In the first part we prove well-posedness in $C^s$ spaces for all $s>0.$ We also give growth estimates for the $C^s$ norms of the vorticity for $0< s \leq 1.$ In the second part we prove global regularity for the vortex patch problem in the super-critical regime.This paper extends the results of Chae, Constantin, and Wu where they prove well-posedness for the so-called LogLog-Euler equation. We also extend the classical results of Chemin and Bertozzi-Constantin on the vortex patch problem to the s…
By applying implicit function theorem on contour dynamics, we prove the existence of co-rotating and travelling patch solutions for both Euler and the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equation. The solutions obtained constitute a desingularization of points vortices when the size of patch support vanishes. In particular, solutions constructed in this paper consist of doubly connected components, which is essentially different from all known results.
We rigorously construct continuous curves of rotating vortex patch solutions to the two-dimensional Euler equations. The curves are large in that, as the parameter tends to infinity, the minimum along the interface of the angular fluid velocity in the rotating frame becomes arbitrarily small. This is consistent with the conjectured existence [WOZ84,Ove86] of singular limiting patches with 90$^\circ$ corners at which the relative fluid velocity vanishes. For solutions close to the disk, we prove that there are "Cat's eyes"-type structures in the flow, and provide numerical evidence that these s…
We develop a new structure of the Green's function of a second-order elliptic operator in divergence form in a 2D bounded domain. Based on this structure and the theory of rearrangement of functions, we construct concentrated traveling-rotating helical vortex patches to 3D incompressible Euler equations in an infinite pipe. By solving an equation for vorticity \begin{equation*} w=\frac{1}{\varepsilon^2}f_\varepsilon\left(\mathcal{G}_{K_H}w-\fracα{2}|x|^2|\ln\varepsilon|\right) \ \ \text{in}\ Ω\end{equation*} for small $ \varepsilon>0 $ and considering a certain maximization problem for the vor…
In this paper, we consider the inviscid limit of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a smooth, bounded and simply connected domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d, d=2,3$. We prove that for a vortex patch initial data the weak Leray solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier boundary conditions will converge (locally in time for $d=3$ and globally in time for $d=2$) to a vortex patch solution of the incompressible Euler equation as the viscosity vanishes. In view of the results obtained in [1] and [19] which dealt with the case of the whole space, we derive an almost …
In "Global regularity for vortex patches" (Commun. Math. Phys. 1993), Bertozzi and Constantin formulate the vortex patch problem in the level-set framework and prove a priori estimates for this active scalar equation. By extending the tools used to prove these estimates, we construct solutions and show propagation of higher Hölder regularity. This constitutes a proof of the regularity of vortex patches, carried out solely in the level-set framework.
In 1993, two proofs of the persistence of regularity of the boundary of a classical vortex patch for the 2D Euler equations were published, one by Chemin (announced in 1991) the other by Bertozzi and Constantin. Chemin, in fact, proved a more general result, extending it further in 1995 showing, roughly, that vorticity initially having discontinuities only in directions normal to a family of vector fields that together foliate the plane continue to be so characterized by the time-evolved vector fields. A different, four-page "elementary" proof of Chemin's 1993 result was published in 1994 by P…
In this paper, we study steady vortex patch solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in a planar bounded domain $D$. Let $ψ_0$ be the solution of the elliptic problem $-Δψ_{0} =1$ in $D$; $ψ_0=0$ on $\partial D$. We prove that for any finite collection of isolated maximum points of $ψ_0$, say $\{x_1,\cdot\cdot\cdot,x_k\},$ and any $k$-tuple $\vecκ=(κ_1,\cdot,\cdot,\cdot,κ_k)$ with $κ_i>0$ and $|\vecκ|:=\sum_{i=1}^kκ_i<<1,$ there exists a steady solution of the Euler equations such that the vorticity has the form $ω^{\vecκ}=1-I_{\cup_{i=1}^k A^{\vecκ}_i}$, where $I$ denotes the character…
Uniformly Rotating Vortex Patches with Arbitrarily Many Genuine Holes
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院）；School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University（厦门大学数学科学学院）
In this paper, we construct new, uniformly-rotating solutions of the vortex sheet equation bifurcating from circles with constant vorticity amplitude. The proof is accomplished via a Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction and a second order expansion of the reduced system.
In this paper we construct a family of steady symmetric vortex patches for the incompressible Euler equations in an open disk. The result is obtained by studying a variational problem in which the kinetic energy of the fluid is maximized subject to some appropriate constraints for the vorticity. Moreover, we show that these vortex patches shrink to a given minimum point of the corresponding Kirchhoff-Routh function as the vorticity strength parameter goes to infinity.
In this paper, we shall implement KAM theory in order to construct a large class of time quasi-periodic solutions for an active scalar model arising in fluid dynamics. More precisely, the construction of invariant tori is performed for quasi-geostrophic shallow-water equations when the {\it Rossby deformation length} belongs to a massive Cantor set. As a consequence, we construct pulsating vortex patches whose boundary is localized in a thin annulus for any time.
We study vortex patches for the 2D incompressible Euler equations. Prior works on this problem take the support of the vorticity (i.e., the vortex patch) to be a bounded region. We instead consider the horizontally periodic setting. This includes both the case of a periodic array of bounded vortex patches and the case of vertically bounded vortex layers. We develop the contour dynamics equation for the boundary of the patch in this horizontally periodic setting, and demonstrate global $C^{1,ε}$ regularity of this patch boundary. In the process of formulating the problem, we consider different …
In this paper, we show that the only solution of the vortex sheet equation, either stationary or uniformly rotating with negative angular velocity $Ω$, such that it has positive vorticity and is concentrated in a finite disjoint union of smooth curves with finite length is the trivial one: constant vorticity amplitude supported on a union of nested, concentric circles. The proof follows a desingularization argument and a calculus of variations flavor.
We consider the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations. We construct vortex patches with smooth boundary on $T^2$ and $R^2$ whose perimeter grows with time. More precisely, for any constant $M > 0$, we construct a vortex patch in $T^2$ whose smooth boundary has length of order 1 at the initial time such that the perimeter grows up to the given constant $M$ within finite time. The construction is done by cutting a thin stick out of an almost square patch. A similar result holds for an almost round patch with a thin handle in $R^2$.
We show that the boundary of a rotating vortex patch (or V-state, in the terminology of Deem and Zabusky) is of class C^infinity provided the patch is close enough to the bifurcation circle in the Lipschitz norm. The rotating patch is convex if it is close enough to the bifurcation circle in the C^2 norm. Our proof is based on Burbea's approach to V-states. Thus conformal mapping plays a relevant role as well as estimating, on Hölder spaces, certain non-convolution singular integral operators of Calderón-Zygmund type.
The purpose of this work is to discuss the well-posedness theory of singular vortex patches. Our main results are of two types: well-posedness and ill-posedness. On the well-posedness side, we show that globally $m-$fold symmetric vortex patches with corners emanating from the origin are globally well-posed in natural regularity classes as long as $m\geq 3$. In this case, all of the angles involved solve a \emph{closed} ODE system which dictates the global-in-time dynamics of the corners and only depends on the initial locations and sizes of the corners. {Along the way we obtain a global well-…
In this paper, we study the existence of co-rotating and counter-rotating unequal-sized pairs of simply connected patches for Euler equations. In particular, we prove the existence of curves of steadily co-rotating and counter-rotating asymmetric vortex pairs passing through a point vortex pairs with unequal circulations.
We construct time quasi-periodic vortex patch solutions with one hole for the planar Euler equations. These structures are captured close to any annulus provided that its modulus belongs to a massive Borel set. The proof is based on Nash-Moser scheme and KAM theory applied with a Hamiltonian system governing the radial deformations of the patch. Compared to the scalar case, some technical issues emerge due to the interaction between the interfaces. One of them is related to a new small divisor problem in the second order Melnikov non-resonances condition coming from the transport equations adv…
This paper aims to study the existence of asymmetric solutions for the two-dimensional generalized surface quasi-geostrophic (gSQG) equations of simply connected patches for $α\in[1,2)$ in the whole plane, where $α=1$ corresponds to the surface quasi-geostrophic equations (SQG). More precisely, we construct non-trivial simply connected co-rotating and traveling patches with unequal vorticity magnitudes. The proof is carried out by means of a combination of a desingularization argument with the implicit function theorem on the linearization of contour dynamics equation. Our results extend recen…
The $n+1$ vortex filament problem has explicit solutions consisting of $n$ parallel filaments of equal circulation in the form of nested polygons uniformly rotating around a central filament which has circulation of opposite sign. We show that when the relation between temporal and spatial periods is fixed at certain rational numbers, these configurations have an infinite number of homographic time dependent standing wave patterns that bifurcate from these uniformly rotating central configurations.
We consider the vortex patch problem for both the 2-D and 3-D incompressible Euler equations. In 2-D, we prove that for vortex patches with $H^{k-0.5}$ Sobolev-class contour regularity, $k \ge 4$, the velocity field on both sides of the vortex patch boundary has $H^k$ regularity for all time. In 3-D, we establish existence of solutions to the vortex patch problem on a finite-time interval $[0,T]$, and we simultaneously establish the $H^{k-0.5}$ regularity of the two-dimensional vortex patch boundary, as well as the $H^k$ regularity of the velocity fields on both sides of vortex patch boundary,…
In this paper, we study a tumor growth model with nutrients. The contact inhibition for the tumor cells, presented in the model, results in the evolution of a congested tumor patch. We study the regularity of the tumor patch as the nutrients' diffusion strength $D$ diminishes. In particular, we show that for small $D>0$ the boundary of the tumor patch stays in a small neighborhood of the smooth tumor patch boundary obtained with $D=0$, uniformly with respect to the Hausdorff distance.
We study how a general steady configuration of finitely-many point vortices, with Newtonian interaction or generalized surface quasi-geostrophic interactions, can be desingularized into a steady configuration of vortex patches. The configurations can be uniformly rotating, uniformly translating, or completely stationary. Using a technique first introduced by Hmidi and Mateu \cite{Hmidi-Mateu} for vortex pairs, we reformulate the problem for the patch boundaries so that it no longer appears singular in the point-vortex limit. Provided the point vortex equilibrium is non-degenerate in a natural …
