An analytical and numerical study of steady patches in the disc

In this paper, we prove the existence of $m$-fold rotating patches for the Euler equations in the disc, for both simply-connected and doubly-connected cases. Compared to the planar case, the rigid boundary introduces rich dynamics for the lowest symmetries $m=1$ and $m=2$. We also discuss some numerical experiments highlighting the interaction between the boundary of the patch and the rigid one.Comment: 56 page

Doubly connected V-states for the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equations

In this paper, we prove the existence of doubly connected V-states for the generalized SQG equations with $\alpha\in ]0,1[.$ They can be described by countable branches bifurcating from the annulus at some explicit "eigenvalues" related to Bessel functions of the first kind. Contrary to Euler equations \cite{H-F-M-V}, we find V-states rotating with positive and negative angular velocities. At the end of the paper we discuss some numerical experiments concerning the limiting V-states.Comment: 65 page

Existence of corotating and counter-rotating vortex pairs for active scalar equations

In this paper, we study the existence of corotating and counter-rotating pairs of simply connected patches for Euler equations and the $(\hbox{SQG})_\alpha$ equations with $\alpha\in (0,1).$ From the numerical experiments implemented for Euler equations in \cite{DZ, humbert, S-Z} it is conjectured the existence of a curve of steady vortex pairs passing through the point vortex pairs. There are some analytical proofs based on variational principle \cite{keady, Tur}, however they do not give enough information about the pairs such as the uniqueness or the topological structure of each single vortex. We intend in this paper to give direct proofs confirming the numerical experiments and extend these results for the $(\hbox{SQG})_\alpha$ equation when $\alpha\in (0,1)$. The proofs rely on the contour dynamics equations combined with a desingularization of the point vortex pairs and the application of the implicit function theorem.Comment: 39 pages, we unified some section

Bifurcation of rotating patches from Kirchhoff vortices

In this paper we prove the existence of countable branches of rotating patches bifurcating from the ellipses at some implicit angular velocities.Comment: 21 page

Relative equilibria with holes for the surface quasi-geostrophic equations

We study the existence of doubly connected rotating patches for the inviscid surface quasi- geostrophic equation left open in \cite{HHH}. By using the approach proposed by \cite{CCGS} we also prove that close to the annulus the boundaries are actually analytic curves

A generalisation of Schramm's formula for SLE(2)

The scaling limit of planar loop-erased random walks is described by a stochastic Loewner evolution with parameter kappa=2. In this note SLE(2) in the upper half-plane H minus a simply-connected compact subset K of H is studied. As a main result, the left-passage probability with respect to K is explicitly determined.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, Tik

Degenerate bifurcation of the rotating patches

In this paper we study the existence of doubly-connected rotating patches for Euler equations when the classical non-degeneracy conditions are not satisfied. We prove the bifurcation of the V-states with two-fold symmetry, however for higher $m-$fold symmetry with $m\geq3$ the bifurcation does not occur. This answers to a problem left open in \cite{H-F-M-V}. Note that, contrary to the known results for simply-connected and doubly-connected cases where the bifurcation is pitchfork, we show that the degenerate bifurcation is actually transcritical. These results are in agreement with the numerical observations recently discussed in \cite{H-F-M-V}. The proofs stem from the local structure of the quadratic form associated to the reduced bifurcation equation.Comment: 39 page