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Fluids, vortex sheets, and skew-mean-curvature flows

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October 18, 2013
Keywords:
  • applied PDE
  • geophysics
  • boundary layers and boundary conditions
  • Hamiltonian system
  • integrable systems
  • mean curvature
  • vorticity
MSC:
  • 35Q35
  • 35Q74
  • 35Q86
  • 35Q93
  • 76Dxx
  • 76B47
Abstract
We show that an approximation of the hydrodynamical Euler equation describes the skew-mean-curvature flow on vortex membranes in any dimension. This generalizes the classical binormal, or vortex filament, equation in 3D. We present a Hamiltonian framework for higher-dimensional vortex filaments and vortex sheets as singular 2-forms with support of codimensions 2 and 1, respectively. This framework, in particular, allows one to define symplectic structures on the spaces of vortex sheets.
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