Abstract

Two kinds of minimum enstrophy vortices in two-dimensional flows are found by variational analysis. Each represents the ideal limit of a selective decay of enstrophy with energy and angular momentum or circulation, respectively, remaining fixed. For each, the vorticity is confined to a disk whose radius is determined by the fixed integrals. The definition of the vortices assures a large degree of stability, but many questions about their formation and destruction have not yet been answered.

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