Fluids, vortex sheets, and skew-mean-curvature flows
Presenter
October 18, 2013
Keywords:
- applied PDE
- geophysics
- boundary layers and boundary conditions
- Hamiltonian system
- integrable systems
- mean curvature
- vorticity
MSC:
- 35Q35
- 35Q74
- 35Q86
- 35Q93
- 76Dxx
- 76B47
Abstract
We show that an approximation of the hydrodynamical Euler equation describes the skew-mean-curvature flow on vortex membranes in any dimension. This generalizes the classical binormal, or vortex filament, equation in 3D. We present a Hamiltonian framework for higher-dimensional vortex filaments and vortex sheets as singular 2-forms with support of codimensions 2 and 1, respectively. This framework, in particular, allows one to define symplectic structures on the spaces of vortex sheets.