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Finite time analyticity for the two and three dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

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The well-posed property for the finite time vortex sheet problem with analytic initial data was first conjectured by Birkhoff in two dimensions and is shown here to hold both in two and three dimensions. Incompressible, inviscid and irrotational flow with a velocity jump across an interface is assumed. In two dimensions, global existence of a weak solution to the Euler equation with such initial conditions is established. In three dimensions, a Lagrangian representation of the vortex sheet analogous to the Birkhoff equation in two dimensions is presented.

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  1. CNRS, Dept. de Mathématiques, Université de Nice, Parc Valrose, F-06034, Nice, France

    C. Sulem

  2. CNRS, Observatoire de Nice, B.P. 252, F-06007, Nice-Cedex, France

    P. L. Sulem & U. Frisch

  3. Dept. de Mathématiques, Université de Paris XIII, Villetaneuse, France

    C. Bardos

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Communicated by J. Glimm

This work was performed while C.B. was visiting the Dept. de Mathématiques, Nice

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Sulem, C., Sulem, P.L., Bardos, C. et al. Finite time analyticity for the two and three dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Commun.Math. Phys. 80, 485–516 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01941659

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