Time-zero limits of Kaden's spirals and 2D Euler
Bartosz Bieganowski, Tomasz Cieślak, Jakub Siemianowski
TL;DR
This work examines the time-zero limits of Kaden spirals in the 2D Euler setting and shows they satisfy an inhomogeneous Euler equation in a weak sense, depending on the spiral parameter $oldsymbol{ u}$. A steady-state weak-solution lemma for vortex sheets is developed to relate boundary behavior across a sheet to the presence of delta sources in the Euler equation: for $oldsymbol{ u}>rac{2}{3}$ a delta on a half-line $ ext{Sigma}$ appears, while for $oldsymbol{ u}=rac{2}{3}$ a delta at the origin can arise. The analysis demonstrates the necessity of both velocity matching and decay of spherical averages of $|v|^2$ near the origin for weak Euler solvability, and provides partial results and numeric evidence for the critical case $oldsymbol{ u}=rac{2}{3}$, where the velocity-matching condition appears not to hold. Collectively, the results illuminate the delicate structure of vortex-sheet limits and their implications for uniqueness questions in Delort-type theories and possible non-uniqueness scenarios driven by Kaden-like perturbations.
Abstract
The present note is devoted to the studies of the relation of the time-zero limits of Kaden's spirals and the 2D Euler equation. It is shown that the time-zero limits of Kaden's spirals satisfy inhomogeneous 2D Euler in a weak sense. As a corollary, the necessity of both, the decay of spherical averages around the origin of the spiral as well as the velocity matching condition, for the 2D Euler equation to hold in a weak sense, is shown. Finally, some preliminary results concerning the Kaden spirals are obtained.
