Structure of Green’s function of elliptic equations and helical vortex patches for 3D incompressible Euler equations

We develop a new structure of the Green’s function of a second-order elliptic operator in divergence form in a 2D bounded domain. Based on this structure and the theory of rearrangement of functions, we construct concentrated traveling-rotating helical vortex patches to 3D incompressible Euler equations in an infinite pipe. By solving an equation for vorticity (Formula presented.) for small ε>0 and considering a certain maximization problem for the vorticity, where GK_H is the inverse of an elliptic operator LK_H in divergence form, we get the existence of a family of concentrated helical vortex patches, which tend asymptotically to a singular helical vortex filament evolved by the binormal curvature flow. We also get nonlinear orbital stability of the maximizers in the variational problem under L^p perturbation when p≥2.