... which brings in many unique and attractive
topics to the vorticity dynamics and vortex motion in rotating fluid dynamics.
In particular, the conservation of the potential vorticity is so fundamental
that ... the
rest part of force and moment caused by attached vortex sheet with nonzero
circulation and free vortex sheet in the wake, denoted by suffix γ. We consider
a thing...
... Cauchy
vorticity formula (3 .133 ) for the transverse process. Unlike the latter, the
velocity evolution depends on the history of fluid particles, and hence cannot
4
Fundamentals of Vorticity Dynamics
This ... (3 .132 )
This theorem has two important corollaries. First, setting S = X in (3 .131 )
and define
Ω(X,τ) ≡
ω
ρ
· F
−1
(3 .133 a)
as the Lagrangian vorticity, which is the ima...
... aspect of vorticity and vortex dynamics, and so
far one’s understanding of the flow has largely been based on experimental
observations even for the simplest body geometries. On the other hand, in
wake-flow ... (7.55), (7.57), and (7.58)
are all necessary input. A major difficulty is that once the vortex sheet rolls
into a vortex with distributed vorticity and spiral arms (Chap...
... efforts have naturally in turn enriched the content of vorticity
and vortex dynamics (e.g., Melander and Hussain 1993a and 1994, Pradeep
and Hussain 2000; Hussain 2002). We expect that the present ... Reynolds decomposition. A
combination of triple decomposition and vortex dynamics has shed light on
building up statistical vortex dynamics and may be a more powerful wa...
... . . . . . . 477
Part I
Vorticity Dynamics
Preface
The importance of vorticity and vortex dynamics has now been well recog-
nized at both fundamental and applied levels of fluid dynamics, as already
anticipated ... vorticity and
vortex dynamics.
2
The aim of this book is to present systematically the physical theory of
vorticity and vortex dynamics. In this intro...
... cast to the vorticity form, very important in vorticity and
vortex dynamics:
Du
Dt
=
∂u
∂t
+ ω × u + ∇
1
2
q
2
,q≡|u|. (2.162)
Therefore, the advective acceleration consists of two parts. One ... fluid motion, and becomes a flexible extension
of the bodies whose movement generates the flow; bring the walls to rest and
the fluid stops immediately.”
Summary
1. The vorticity and...
... we may
158 4 Vorticity Dynamics
It is conceptually useful to divide the vorticity field created by a moving
body into two parts. One part is dragged along by or attaches to the body,
and the other ... equations from ∇×ω = 0 and condition ∇·u = 0 for three
4.2 Vorticity Field at Small Reynolds Numbers 155
4.2.3 Separated Vortex and Vortical Wake
From the point of view of vort...
... +
B
r
, (6.20)
where A and B are arbitrary constants. For a flow between two rotating
coaxial circular cylinders with inner and outer radii R
1
and R
2
and angular
velocity Ω
1
and Ω
2
, respectively, ... all vorticity
lines being along the axis and all streamlines are closed circles centered at the
z-axis. Then, if w is nonzero and r-dependent, ω
θ
will appear too such that
th...
... of Vorticity and Vortices 685
and the other part is induced by distortions in the vortex shape (12.103b),
due to the radial advection of contours relative to the vortex center by the
first part.
Once
ˆ
φ
j
and ... (12.104b)
Remarkably, owing to the vortex- patch approximation, the (q,φ)partis
independent of the vortex distortion η
j
but simply advected by the plane-
tary vo...
... Tensors, and Their Operations
The particular importance of the permutation tensor in vorticity and
vortex dynamics lies in the fact that
ω
i
=
ijk
u
k,j
=
ijk
Ω
jk
, (A.11a)
due to (A.3) and (A.6). ... inviscid vortex streets of finite-cored vortices. J. Fluid Mech.
147: 187–212.
Melander M.V., Hussain F. (1993a) Polarized vorticity dynamics on a vortex
column. Phys. Fl...