Wednesday, October 24, 2012

1210.6271 (Alberto Enciso et al.)

Existence of knotted vortex tubes in steady Euler flows    [PDF]

Alberto Enciso, Daniel Peralta-Salas
We prove the existence of knotted and linked thin vortex tubes for steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equation in R^3. More precisely, given a finite collection of (possibly linked and knotted) disjoint thin tubes in R^3, we show that they can be transformed with a C^m-small diffeomorphism into a set of vortex tubes of a Beltrami field that tends to zero at infinity. The structure of the vortex lines in the tubes is extremely rich, presenting a positive-measure set of invariant tori and infinitely many periodic vortex lines. The problem of the existence of steady knotted vortex tubes can be traced back to Lord Kelvin.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6271

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