To establish the nonlinear (Liapunov) stability of both circular and elliptical vortex patches in the plane for the nonlinear dynamical system generated by the two-dimensional Euler equations of incompressible, inviscid hydrodynamics. This is accomplished by using a relative variational principle in terms of energy function. A counterexample shows that our result in the case of an elliptical vortex patch is the best one that can be attained by applying the energy estimate.
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