Arrays of vortices are considered for two-dimensional, inviscid flows when the functional relationship between the stream function and the vorticity is a hyperbolic sine. An exact solution as a doubly periodic array of vortices is expressed in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions. There is a threshold value of the period parameter such that a transition from globally smooth distributions of vorticity to singular distributions occurs.
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