Special Session 150: Water Waves and Beyond

Hollow desingularization of vortices
Kristoffer Varholm
University of Pittsburgh
USA
Co-Author(s):    Robin Ming Chen, Samuel Walsh, Miles H. Wheeler
Abstract:
It is well-known that there exist a number of steady solutions with point vortices to the Euler equations. Both configurations in the plane, and embedded in water waves. In recent years there has been a program to desingularize these steady solutions, by expanding the point vortices into hollow vortices. These are essentially spinning air bubbles. In this talk I will give an overview of this effort, including work in progress on hollow vortex rings.