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Existence of steady vortex rings in an ideal fluid. (English) Zbl 0709.35081

Summary: We prove the existence of global steady vortex rings in an ideal fluid with given propagation speed \(W>0\), flux constant \(k\geq 0\) and any bounded, positive, nondecreasing vorticity functions.

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35Q35 PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics
76B47 Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids
35J65 Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations
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