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Stefano Ceci

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arXiv2022

On the dynamics of vortices in viscous 2D flows

We study the 2D Navier--Stokes solution starting from an initial vorticity mildly concentrated near $N$ distinct points in the plane. We prove quantitative estimates on the propagation of concentration near a system of interacting point vortices introduced by Helmholtz and Kirchhoff. Our work extends the previous results in the literature in three ways: The initial vorticity is concentrated in a weak (Wasserstein) sense, it is merely $L^p$ integrable for some $p>2$, and the estimates we derive are uniform with respect to the viscosity.

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arXiv2021

On the dynamics of point vortices for the 2D Euler equation with $L^p$ vorticity

We study the evolution of solutions to the 2D Euler equations whose vorticity is sharply concentrated in the Wasserstein sense around a finite number of points. Under the assumption that the vorticity is merely $L^p$ integrable for some $p>2$, we show that the evolving vortex regions remain concentrated around points, and these points are close to solutions to the Helmholtz--Kirchhoff point vortex system.

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arXiv2020

Vortex dynamics for 2D Euler flows with unbounded vorticity

It is well-known that the dynamics of vortices in an ideal incompressible two-dimensional fluid contained in a bounded not necessarily simply connected smooth domain is described by the Kirchhoff--Routh point vortex system. In this paper, we revisit the classical problem of how well solutions to the Euler equations approximate these vortex dynamics and extend previous rigorous results to the case where the vorticity field is unbounded. More precisely, we establish estimates for the $2$-Wasserstein distance between the vorticity and the empirical measure associated with the point vortex dynamics. In particular, we derive an estimate on the order of weak convergence of the Euler solutions to the solutions of the point vortex system.

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