Peter R.N.

Childs,
Chapter 3 - Vorticity and Rotation,
Editor(s): Peter R.N. Childs,
Rotating Flow,
Butterworth-Heinemann,
2011,
Pages 53-79,
ISBN 9780123820983,
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-382098-3.00003-2.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123820983000032)
Abstract: Publisher Summary
This chapter explores the mechanisms responsible for the interactions between
fluids and associated structures and boundaries that produce vorticity in a flow.
It provides an introduction of modeling approaches for some of the principal types
of vortex formations. Vorticity involves the rotation of a flow element,
representing a chunk of fluid particles, as the flow element moves through a flow
field. There is a fundamental distinction between vorticity and curved or circular
translation of fluid elements. If the motion between particles is purely
translational, and the distortion of the fluid element concerned is symmetrical,
the flow is defined as irrotational and vorticity is not present. A number of
analytical ideals representing different types of vortices have been introduced.
Some of these such as free and Rankine vortices involve vorticity. By comparison,
the forced vortex is irrotational and vorticity is not present.