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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Differential Equations Volume 2012, Article ID 929626, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/929626 Research Article Some Nonlinear Vortex Solutions Michael C. Haslam,1 Christopher J. Smith,2 Ghada Alobaidi,3 and Roland Mallier2 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3 2 Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE Correspondence should be addressed to Roland Mallier, rolandmallier@ Received 3 June 2011; Revised 10 November 2011; Accepted 24 November 2011 Academic Editor: Bashir Ahmad Copyright q 2012 Michael C. Haslam et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We consider the steady-state two-dimensional motion of an inviscid incompressible fluid which obeys a nonlinear Poisson equation. By seeking solutions of a specific form, we arrive at some interesting new nonlinear vortex solutions. 1. Introduction The study of wakes behind bodies has generated significant interest due to the problem’s important applications. An excellent review of current theories on the evolution of such wakes is given by Chomaz 1. Numerical models of these flows are typically based on the full three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. Still, two-dimensional exact solutions of the Euler equation add significantly to our understanding of such flows 2. Recently, vortex solutions of the steady two-dimensional inviscid problem have been used as initial conditions for solvers