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Compactness and stability for planar vortex-pairs with prescribed impulse

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Abstract

Concentration-compactness is used to prove compactness of maximising sequences for a variational problem governing symmetric steady vortex-pairs in a uniform planar ideal fluid flow, where the kinetic energy is to be maximised and the constraint set comprises the set of all equimeasurable rearrangements of a given function (representing vorticity) that have a prescribed impulse (linear momentum). A form of orbital stability is deduced.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)547-572
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of Differential Equations
Volume270
Early online date15 Sept 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jan 2021

Funding

The author thanks Helena and Milton Lopes for valuable conversations and he is grateful for the hospitality and support of the Thematic Programme on Incompressible Fluid Dynamics held in 2014 at IMPA (Instituto de Matem?tica Pura e Applicada), Rio de Janeiro, where this research was substantially conducted.

Keywords

  • Compactness
  • Convexity
  • Maximiser
  • Rearrangements
  • Stability
  • Vortex

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Applied Mathematics

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