Abstract
This survey paper gives an account of recent analytic and numerical results of the initial value problem:
which is the Birkhoff-Rott equation for the evolution of a slightly perturbed flat vortex sheet. We will indicate some open problems of current research and propose a new physically desingularized Vortex sheet equation, which agrees with the finite thickness vortex layer equations in the localized approximation.
Keywords
- Singularity Formation
- Point Vortex
- Vortex Sheet
- Roundoff Error
- Vortex Layer
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The author was economically supported by FONDECYT (grant number 235, 1987–88) and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (grants 88.12.08, 1988 and 89.12.08) 1989).
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Orellana, O.F. (1990). On some analytic and computational aspects of two dimensional vortex sheet evolution. In: Ruscheweyh, S., Saff, E.B., Salinas, L.C., Varga, R.S. (eds) Computational Methods and Function Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0087904
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