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Steady point vortex pair in a field of Stuart-type vorticity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2019

Vikas S. Krishnamurthy Open the ORCID record for Vikas S. Krishnamurthy [Opens in a new window] ,
Miles H. Wheeler Open the ORCID record for Miles H. Wheeler [Opens in a new window] ,
Darren G. Crowdy Open the ORCID record for Darren G. Crowdy [Opens in a new window]  and
Adrian Constantin Open the ORCID record for Adrian Constantin [Opens in a new window]
Vikas S. Krishnamurthy*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Miles H. Wheeler
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Darren G. Crowdy
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Adrian Constantin
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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†Email address for correspondence: vikas.krishnamurthy2@gmail.com
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Abstract

A new family of exact solutions to the two-dimensional steady incompressible Euler equation is presented. The solutions provide a class of hybrid equilibria comprising two point vortices of unit circulation – a point vortex pair – embedded in a smooth sea of non-zero vorticity of ‘Stuart-type’ so that the vorticity $\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}$ and the stream function $\unicode[STIX]{x1D713}$ are related by $\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}=a\text{e}^{b\unicode[STIX]{x1D713}}-\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}(\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{x}_{0})-\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}(\boldsymbol{x}+\boldsymbol{x}_{0})$, where $a$ and $b$ are constants. We also examine limits of these new Stuart-embedded point vortex equilibria where the Stuart-type vorticity becomes localized into additional point vortices. One such limit results in a two-real-parameter family of smoothly deformable point vortex equilibria in an otherwise irrotational flow. The new class of hybrid equilibria can be viewed as continuously interpolating between the limiting pure point vortex equilibria. At the same time the new solutions continuously extrapolate a similar class of hybrid equilibria identified by Crowdy (Phys. Fluids, vol. 15, 2003, pp. 3710–3717).

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Vortex Flows: Vortex dynamics
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 874 , 10 September 2019 , R1
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