On the Collapse of Tubes Carried by 3D Incompressible Flows

Abstract

We povide a test for numerical simulations for the collapse of regular tubes carried by a 3D incompressible flow. In particular, we obtain necessary conditions for 3D Euler to have a vortex tube collapse in finite time.

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