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Initial layer instability of the kinetic Lamb-Oseen Vortex

Michele Dolce·Isabelle Gallagher
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It is well-known that solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes system are limits in various contexts (weak or strong), of solutions to the Boltzmann equation, when the Mach and the Knudsen numbers go to zero. In particular the case of smooth solutions is by now rather well understood. Recent works have aimed at choosing initial data in function spaces as close as possible to those corresponding to well-posedness for the incompressible Navier-Stokes system. This paper tackles the case of measurevalued initial vorticity, in two space dimensions: in the special case when the initial vorticity is a Dirac mass, it is known that the unique solution to the Navier-Stokes system is the solution to the heat equation. We prove that the kinetic emanation of this initial vorticity (slightly smoothed out) leads to a solution of the Boltzmann equation which diverges in a strong way and in a very small time layer, from the expected hydrodynamic limit.

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Michele Dolce, Isabelle Gallagher. 2026-07-18. Initial layer instability of the kinetic Lamb-Oseen Vortex. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16729

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