Alt, Caffarelli, and Friedman [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 81(1983), 97–149] established the well-posedness of the axially symmetric incompressible jet flow without vorticity. In this paper, we mainly extend their work to the rotational case. Precisely, our main results show that for a given incoming horizontal velocity and atmosphere pressure at the outlet, there exists a unique solution to incompressible rotational jet flow issuing from a three-dimensional axisymmetric nozzle, and the free boundary initiates smoothly at the endpoint of the nozzle wall. Moreover, it is proved that there is no singularity of the velocity field near the axis. Motivated by Serrin's work [J. Ration. Mech. Anal. 2(1953), 563–575] on irrotational free streamline problems, we establish the under-over theorem and the single intersection property of the free boundary for the rotational case. Then the convexity of the free boundary is also obtained. Finally, we prove that the free boundary is monotonic with respect to the nozzle wall.
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