The Biot-Savart operator of a bounded domain

Alberto Enciso, Maria de los Angeles Garcia-Ferrero, Daniel Peralta-Salas

Published 2017-02-14Version 1

We construct the analog of the Biot-Savart integral for bounded domains. Specifically, we show that the velocity field of an incompressible fluid with tangency boundary conditions on a bounded domain can be written in terms of its vorticity using an integral kernel $K_\Omega(x,y)$ that has an inverse-square singularity on the diagonal.