Dynamics and leapfrogging phenomena of multiple helical vortices for 3D incompressible Euler equations

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Autori principali: Cao, Daomin, Fan, Junhong, Qin, Guolin, Wan, Jie
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author Cao, Daomin
Fan, Junhong
Qin, Guolin
Wan, Jie
author_facet Cao, Daomin
Fan, Junhong
Qin, Guolin
Wan, Jie
contents In this paper, we investigate the time evolution of helical vortices without swirl for the incompressible Euler equations in $\mathbb R^3$ under general initial assumptions. Assume the initial helical vorticity is sharply concentrated in $N$ distinct $\ep$-neighborhoods, whose mutual distances vanish as $O(1/|\ln \ep|)$, and each vortex core possesses vorticity mass of order $1/|\ln \ep|^{1+b}$ for an arbitrary fixed $b\in\mathbb R$. We prove that as $\ep\to 0$, the motion of these helical vortices converges uniformly to a dynamical system derived herein over a time interval of order $1/|\ln\varepsilon|^{1-b}$. In the particular case $b=-1$, our results establish the evolution counterpart for interacting vortex helices constructed in [I. Guerra, M. Musso, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré C Anal. Non Lináire, 2025]. Notably, for two interacting helical vortices with initial mutual distance $ ρ_0/|\ln \ep|$, by choosing $ρ_0$ sufficiently small, our analysis extends to timescales covering multiple periods. This result provides the first mathematical justification for the numerically observed phenomenon termed ``leapfrogging of Kelvin waves" reported in [N. Hietala et al., Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2016].
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spellingShingle Dynamics and leapfrogging phenomena of multiple helical vortices for 3D incompressible Euler equations
Cao, Daomin
Fan, Junhong
Qin, Guolin
Wan, Jie
Analysis of PDEs
Primary: 76B47, Secondary: 37N10
In this paper, we investigate the time evolution of helical vortices without swirl for the incompressible Euler equations in $\mathbb R^3$ under general initial assumptions. Assume the initial helical vorticity is sharply concentrated in $N$ distinct $\ep$-neighborhoods, whose mutual distances vanish as $O(1/|\ln \ep|)$, and each vortex core possesses vorticity mass of order $1/|\ln \ep|^{1+b}$ for an arbitrary fixed $b\in\mathbb R$. We prove that as $\ep\to 0$, the motion of these helical vortices converges uniformly to a dynamical system derived herein over a time interval of order $1/|\ln\varepsilon|^{1-b}$. In the particular case $b=-1$, our results establish the evolution counterpart for interacting vortex helices constructed in [I. Guerra, M. Musso, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré C Anal. Non Lináire, 2025]. Notably, for two interacting helical vortices with initial mutual distance $ ρ_0/|\ln \ep|$, by choosing $ρ_0$ sufficiently small, our analysis extends to timescales covering multiple periods. This result provides the first mathematical justification for the numerically observed phenomenon termed ``leapfrogging of Kelvin waves" reported in [N. Hietala et al., Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2016].
title Dynamics and leapfrogging phenomena of multiple helical vortices for 3D incompressible Euler equations
topic Analysis of PDEs
Primary: 76B47, Secondary: 37N10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12240