Dynamics of almost parallel vortex filaments
We consider the 1-D Schrödinger system with point vortex-type interactions that was derived by R. Klein, A. Majda and K. Damodaran and by V. Zakharov to modelize the dynamics of N nearly parallel vortex filaments in a 3-D incompressible fluid. We first prove a global in time result and display several classes of solutions. Then we consider the problem of collisions. In particular we establish rigorously the existence of a pair of almost parallel vortex filaments, with opposite circulation, colliding at some point in finite time. These results are joint works with E. Faou and E. Miot.