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On stability of Euler flows on closed surfaces of positive genus

arXiv:1812.08959

Abstract

Incompressible flows of an ideal two-dimensional fluid on a closed orientable surface of positive genus are considered. Linear stability of harmonic, i.e. irrotational and incompressible, solutions to the Euler equations is shown using the Hodge-Helmholtz decomposition. We also demonstrate that any surface Euler flow is stable with respect to harmonic velocity perturbations.

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