Uniformly Rotating Vortex Patches with 90-Degree Corners

Abstract

For the 2-D incompressible Euler equation, we prove the existence of $m$-fold symmetric uniformly rotating vortex patches with 90-degree corners for all $m\ge 12$. Properties of these patches and the induced stationary flows in the co-rotating frame are characterized. Our construction is based on a novel fixed-point method.

114 pages, 6 figures