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  2. Vortex sheet - Wikipedia

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    Continuous vortex sheet approximation by panel method. Roll-up of a vortex sheet due to an initial sinusoidal perturbation. Note that the integral in the above equation is a Cauchy principal value integral. The initial condition for a flat vortex sheet with constant strength is (,) =. The flat vortex sheet is an equilibrium solution.

  3. Burgers vortex - Wikipedia

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    Burgers vortex layer or Burgers vortex sheet is a strained shear layer, which is a two-dimensional analogue of Burgers vortex. This is also an exact solution of the Navier–Stokes equations, first described by Albert A. Townsend in 1951. [ 8 ]

  4. Vortex lattice method - Wikipedia

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    The Vortex lattice method, (VLM), is a numerical method used in computational fluid dynamics, mainly in the early stages of aircraft design and in aerodynamic education at university level. The VLM models the lifting surfaces, such as a wing , of an aircraft as an infinitely thin sheet of discrete vortices to compute lift and induced drag .

  5. Vorticity - Wikipedia

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    A vortex tube is the surface in the continuum formed by all vortex lines passing through a given (reducible) closed curve in the continuum. The 'strength' of a vortex tube (also called vortex flux ) [ 10 ] is the integral of the vorticity across a cross-section of the tube, and is the same everywhere along the tube (because vorticity has zero ...

  6. Vortex stretching - Wikipedia

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    In fluid dynamics, vortex stretching is the lengthening of vortices in three-dimensional fluid flow, associated with a corresponding increase of the component of vorticity in the stretching direction—due to the conservation of angular momentum. [1] Vortex stretching is associated with a particular term in the vorticity equation. For example ...

  7. Lambda2 method - Wikipedia

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    The Lambda2 method, or Lambda2 vortex criterion, is a vortex core line detection algorithm that can adequately identify vortices from a three-dimensional fluid velocity field. [1] The Lambda2 method is Galilean invariant , which means it produces the same results when a uniform velocity field is added to the existing velocity field or when the ...

  8. Vorticity equation - Wikipedia

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    The first source term on the right hand side represents vortex stretching. The equation is valid in the absence of any concentrated torques and line forces for a compressible , Newtonian fluid . In the case of incompressible flow (i.e., low Mach number ) and isotropic fluids, with conservative body forces, the equation simplifies to the ...

  9. Optical vortex - Wikipedia

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    Vortices are points in 2D fields and lines in 3D fields (as they have codimension two). Integrating the phase of the field around a path enclosing a vortex yields an integer multiple of 2 π. This integer is known as the topological charge, or strength, of the vortex. A hypergeometric-Gaussian mode (HyGG) has an optical vortex in its center ...