Hamel–Nadirashvili's punctured-disk circular-flow conjecture

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Let DD be an open non-empty disk of radius R>0R>0 centered at the origin, and let nn be the outward unit normal on D\partial D. A flow v\mathbf{v} is circular if v(x)\mathbf{v}(x) is parallel to eθ(x)=(x2/x,x1/x)\mathbf{e}_\theta(x)=\left(-x_2/|x|,x_1/|x|\right) for every xD\{0}x\in D\backslash\{0\}. Let zDz\in D and let v\mathbf{v} be a C2(D\{z})C^2(\overline{D}\backslash\{z\}) and bounded flow solving the stationary two-dimensional Euler equations in D\{z}D\backslash\{z\}, with vn=0\mathbf{v}\cdot n=0 on D\partial D.

Hamel–Nadirashvili's conjecture. If v>0|\mathbf{v}|>0 in D\{z}\overline{D}\backslash\{z\}, then zz is the origin and v\mathbf{v} is a circular flow.

This conjecture concerns whether a nonvanishing bounded steady flow in a disk punctured at one point must have its puncture at the center and be circular. The source describes it as difficult to prove and attributes it to Hamel and Nadirashvili.

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Yuchen Wang and Weicheng Zhan, “A Liouville theorem for the Euler equations in a disk”, arXiv:2306.00302 (2023).

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