Mathematical analysis of pulsatile flow, vortex breakdown and instantaneous blow-up for the axisymmetric Euler equations

Abstract

The dynamics along the particle trajectories for the 3D axisymmetric Euler equations are considered. It is shown that if the inflow is rapidly increasing (pushy) in time, the corresponding laminar profile of the incompressible Euler flow is not (in some sense) stable provided that the swirling component is not zero. It is also shown that if the vorticity on the axis is not zero (with some extra assumptions), then there is no steady flow. We can rephrase these instability to an instantaneous blow-up. In the proof, Frenet-Serret formulas and orthonormal moving frame are essentially used.