Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
1998-07-15
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
4 pages, 1 figure, ReVTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.60.1748
We show that, in a two-dimensional (2d) ideal fluid (also applies to a column of quasi-2d non-neutral plasma in an axial magnetic field), large elliptical vortices in a finite disk are stable. The stability is established by comparison between energy of elliptical and symmetrical states to satisfy a sufficient condition, without dynamical eigen-analysis. Analytical small ellipticity expansion of energy and exact numerical values for finite ellipticity are both obtained. The expansion indicates stable linear l=2 diocotron modes for large vortices (or plasma columns). Numerical simulations of the 2d Euler equation are also performed. They not only confirm the sufficient condition, but also show that the stability persists to smaller vortex sizes. The reason why decaying l=2 modes were obtained by Briggs, Daugherty, and Levy [Phys. Fluids 13, 421 (1970)] using eigen-analysis is also discussed.
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