Imperial College London

ProfessorDarrenCrowdy

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Mathematics

Professor in Applied Mathematics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 8587d.crowdy Website

 
 
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735Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Crowdy:2021:10.1017/jfm.2021.55,
author = {Crowdy, D and Nelson, R and Krishnamurthy, V},
doi = {10.1017/jfm.2021.55},
journal = {Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
pages = {R5--1--R5--11},
title = {"H-states'': exact solutions for a rotating hollow vortex},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.55},
volume = {913},
year = {2021}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - Exact solutions are found for an N-fold rotationally symmetric, steadily rotating hollow vortex where a continuous real parameter governs its deformation from a circular shape and N≥2 is an integer. The vortex shape is found as part of the solution. Following the designation ‘V-states’ assigned to steadily rotating vortex patches (Deem & Zabusky, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 40, 1978, pp. 859–862) we call the analogous rotating hollow vortices ‘H-states’. Unlike V-states where all but the N=2 solution – the Kirchhoff ellipse – must be found numerically, it is shown that all H-state solutions can be written down in closed form. Surface tension is not present on the boundaries of the rotating H-states but the latter are shown to be intimately related to solutions for a non-rotating hollow vortex with surface tension on its boundary (Crowdy, Phys. Fluids, vol. 11, 1999a, pp. 2836–2845). It is also shown how the results here relate to recent work on constant-vorticity water waves (Hur & Wheeler, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 896, 2020, R1) where a connection to classical capillary waves (Crapper, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 2, 1957, pp. 532–540) is made.
AU - Crowdy,D
AU - Nelson,R
AU - Krishnamurthy,V
DO - 10.1017/jfm.2021.55
EP - 1
PY - 2021///
SN - 0022-1120
SP - 5
TI - "H-states'': exact solutions for a rotating hollow vortex
T2 - Journal of Fluid Mechanics
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.55
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/86833
VL - 913
ER -