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ESAIM: COCV
Volume 27, 2021
Regular articles published in advance of the transition of the journal to Subscribe to Open (S2O). Free supplement sponsored by the Fonds National pour la Science Ouverte
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| Article Number | S10 | |
| Number of page(s) | 37 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2020058 | |
| Published online | 01 March 2021 | |
A Zermelo navigation problem with a vortex singularity*
1
Inria Sophia Antipolis and Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, UMR CNRS 5584,
9 avenue Alain Savary,
21078
Dijon, France.
2
Toulouse Univ., INP-ENSEEIHT-IRIT, UMR CNRS 5505, 2 rue Camichel,
31071
Toulouse, France.
3
Toulouse Univ., IRIT-UPS, UMR CNRS 5505,
118 route de Narbonne,
31062
Toulouse, France.
** Corresponding author: boris.wembe@irit.fr
Received:
24
September
2019
Accepted:
14
August
2020
Helhmoltz–Kirchhoff equations of motions of vortices of an incompressible fluid in the plane define a dynamics with singularities and this leads to a Zermelo navigation problem describing the ship travel in such a field where the control is the heading angle. Considering one vortex, we define a time minimization problem which can be analyzed with the technics of geometric optimal control combined with numerical simulations, the geometric frame being the extension of Randers metrics in the punctured plane, with rotational symmetry. Candidates as minimizers are parameterized thanks to the Pontryagin Maximum Principle as extremal solutions of a Hamiltonian vector field. We analyze the time minimal solution to transfer the ship between two points where during the transfer the ship can be either in a strong current region in the vicinity of the vortex or in a weak current region. The analysis is based on a micro-local classification of the extremals using mainly the integrability properties of the dynamics due to the rotational symmetry. The discussion is complex and related to the existence of an isolated extremal (Reeb) circle due to the vortex singularity. The explicit computation of cut points where the extremal curves cease to be optimal is given and the spheres are described in the case where at the initial point the current is weak.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 49K15 / 53C60 / 70H05
Key words: Helhmoltz–Kirchhoff N vortices model / Zermelo navigation problem / geometric optimal control / conjugate and cut loci / Clairaut–Randers metric with polar singularity
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