2024/09/29 by Deokwoo Lim, Lim, Deokwoo, In‐Jee Jeong +1 · 6 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics #Navier-Stokes equation solutions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.19497
For axisymmetric flows without swirl and compactly supported initial vorticity, we prove the upper bound of t4/3 for the growth of the vorticity maximum, which was conjectured by Childress [Phys. D, 2008] and supported by numerical computations from Childress--Gilbert--Valiant [J. Fluid Mech. 2016]. The key is to estimate the velocity maximum by the kinetic energy together with conserved quantities involving the vorticity.