Large time behavior of vortex dynamics

Número: 
46
Ano: 
2002
Autor: 
D. Iftimie
Milton C. Lopes Filho
Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes
Abstract: 

In this paper we prove two results regarding the large-time behavior of vortex dynamics in the full plane. In the first result we show that the total integral of vorticity is confined in a region of diameter growing at most like the square-root of time. In the second result we show that if a dynamic rescaling of the absolute value of vorticity with spatial scale growing linearly with time converges weakly, then it must converge to a discrete sum of Dirac masses. This last result extends in scope a previous result by the authors, valid for nonnegative initial vorticity on a half-plane.

Keywords: 
Vorticity
confinement
incompressible flow
ideal flow
Mathematics Subject Classification 2000 (MSC 2000): 
Primary 76; Secondary 35;
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