Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2000-12-05
Phys. Rev. E, 63, 056306 (2001)
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
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Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.63.056306
Models of inviscid incompressible fluid are considered, with the kinetic energy (i.e., the Lagrangian functional) taking the form ${\cal L}\sim\int k^\alpha|{\bf v_k}|^2d^3{\bf k}$ in 3D Fourier representation, where $\alpha$ is a constant, $0<\alpha< 1$. Unlike the case $\alpha=0$ (the usual Eulerian hydrodynamics), a finite value of $\alpha$ results in a finite energy for a singular, frozen-in vortex filament. This property allows us to study the dynamics of such filaments without the necessity of a regularization procedure for short length scales. The linear analysis of small symmetrical deviations from a stationary solution is performed for a pair of anti-parallel vortex filaments and an analog of the Crow instability is found at small wave-numbers. A local approximate Hamiltonian is obtained for the nonlinear long-scale dynamics of this system. Self-similar solutions of the corresponding equations are found analytically. They describe the formation of a finite time singularity, with all length scales decreasing like $(t^*-t)^{1/(2-\alpha)}$, where $t^*$ is the singularity time.
Podolsky Dmitry I.
Rasmussen Jorgen
Ruban Victor P.
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