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This paper proves that circular vortex patches in the plane are stable for the nonlinear dynamical system generated by the Euler equations of incompressible fluids. This is achieved by establishing a relative variational principle in terms of either energy or angular momentum. Thus, we exploit and extend Arnold's idea in (1965, 1969) to a nonsmooth setting as well.
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Communicated by J. L. Lebowitz
Research partially supported by DOE contract DE-AT03-82ER12097 to the University of California, Berkeley
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Wan, Y.H., Pulvirenti, M. Nonlinear stability of circular vortex patches. Commun.Math. Phys. 99, 435–450 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01240356
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