A variational problem for steady vortices in a shear flow past an obstacle

Behrouz Emamizadeh

doi:10.1023/A:1024569231425

A variational problem for steady vortices in a shear flow past an obstacle

Behrouz Emamizadeh^*

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We prove existence of maximizers for a variational problem for a steady vortex anomaly of bounded extent in a shear flow, past an obstacle, in a planar exterior domain. Kinetic energy is maximized subject to the vorticity being a rearrangement of a prescribed function.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	399-411
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications
Volume	5
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024569231425
Publication status	Published - Oct 2003
Externally published	Yes

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Green's functions
Rearrangements of functions
Semilinear elliptic partial differential equations
Variational problems
Vortex anomaly

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Computational Mathematics

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A variational problem for steady vortices in a shear flow past an obstacle

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