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Viscous profiles of vortex patches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2013
Abstract
We deal with the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with vortex patches as initial data. Such data describe an initial configuration for which the vorticity is discontinuous across a hypersurface. We give an asymptotic expansion of the solutions in the vanishing viscosity limit which exhibits an internal layer where the fluid vorticity has a sharp variation. This layer moves with the flow of the Euler equations.
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- Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 1 - 68
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- ©Cambridge University Press 2013
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