Breaking of vortex lines - a new mechanism of collapse in hydrodynamics

dc.creatorKuznetsov, E. A.
dc.creatorRuban, V. P.
dc.date2000-09-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:44:46Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:44:46Z
dc.descriptionA new mechanism of the collapse in hydrodynamics is suggested, due to breaking of continuously distributed vortex lines. Collapse results in formation of the point singularities of the vorticity field $|{\bfΩ}|$. At the collapse point, the value of the vorticity blows up as $(t_0-t)^{-1}$ where $t_0$ is a collapse time. The spatial structure of the collapsing distribution approaches a pancake form: contraction occurs by the law $l_1\sim(t_0-t)^{3/2}$ along the "soft" direction, the characteristic scales vanish like $l_2\sim(t_0-t)^{1/2}$ along two other ("hard") directions. This scenario of the collapse is shown to take place in the integrable three-dimensional hydrodynamics with the Hamiltonian ${\cal H}=\int|{\bfΩ}|d{\bf r}$. Most numerical studies of collapse in the Euler equation are in a good agreement with the proposed theory.
dc.descriptionrevtex, 9 pages, no figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0009007
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0009007
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/83768
dc.subjectFluid Dynamics
dc.titleBreaking of vortex lines - a new mechanism of collapse in hydrodynamics
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