Energy-Minimising Parallel Flows with Prescribed Vorticity Distribution
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This note concerns a nonlinear differential equation problem in which both the nonlinearity in the equation and its solution are determined by prescribed data. The question under consideration arises from a study of two-dimensional steady parallel-flows of a perfect fluid governed by Euler’s equations and a free-boundary condition, when the distribution of vorticity is arbitrary but prescribed.
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