Islands in stable fluid equilibria
Abstract
We prove that stable fluid equilibria with trivial homology on curved, reflection-symmetric periodic channels must posses "islands", or cat's eye vortices. In this way, arbitrarily small disturbances of a flat boundary cause a change of streamline topology of stable steady states.
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