Abstract:
A nonlinear stability analysis of the stationary rotation of a system of five identical point vortices lying uniformly on a circle of radius R0 outside a circular domain of radius R is performed. The problem is reduced to the problem of stability of an equilibrium position of a Hamiltonian system with a cyclic variable. The stability of stationary motion is interpreted as Routh stability. Conditions for stability, formal stability and instability are obtained depending on the values of the parameter q=R2/R20.
Keywords:
point vortices, stationary motion, stability, resonance.
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation within the framework of the Federal program “Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Personnel of Innovative Russia for the years 2009-2013” (contract No 14.A18.21.0873), and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grants 11-05-01138, 11-05-91052 and 10-05-00646).
Citation:
Leonid G. Kurakin, Irina V. Ostrovskaya, “Nonlinear Stability Analysis of a Regular Vortex Pentagon Outside a Circle”, Regul. Chaotic Dyn., 17:5 (2012), 385–396