Global bifurcation of hollow vortex streets
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| author | Oikonomou, Vasileios N. Walsh, Samuel |
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| contents | Vortex streets are periodic configurations of vortices propagating through an irrotational flow. In this paper, we study streets of hollow vortices, which are solutions to the free boundary $2$-d irrotational incompressible Euler equations. Each vortex core is a region of constant pressure in the complement of the fluid domain with a nonzero circulation around it. We prove that any non-degenerate singly-periodic point vortex configuration can be ``desingularized'' to create a global curve of solutions to the steady hollow vortex street problem, and we further characterize the types of singular behavior that can develop as one transverses the curve to its extreme. As specific examples, we study von Kármán vortex streets, translating vortex arrays, and a two-pair (2P) configuration. Our method is based on analytic global bifurcation theory and adapts the desingularization technique of Chen, Walsh, and Wheeler to the periodic setting. |
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| spellingShingle | Global bifurcation of hollow vortex streets Oikonomou, Vasileios N. Walsh, Samuel Analysis of PDEs Vortex streets are periodic configurations of vortices propagating through an irrotational flow. In this paper, we study streets of hollow vortices, which are solutions to the free boundary $2$-d irrotational incompressible Euler equations. Each vortex core is a region of constant pressure in the complement of the fluid domain with a nonzero circulation around it. We prove that any non-degenerate singly-periodic point vortex configuration can be ``desingularized'' to create a global curve of solutions to the steady hollow vortex street problem, and we further characterize the types of singular behavior that can develop as one transverses the curve to its extreme. As specific examples, we study von Kármán vortex streets, translating vortex arrays, and a two-pair (2P) configuration. Our method is based on analytic global bifurcation theory and adapts the desingularization technique of Chen, Walsh, and Wheeler to the periodic setting. |
| title | Global bifurcation of hollow vortex streets |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19619 |