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Flow topology of helical vortices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2018

Oscar Velasco Fuentes Open the ORCID record for Oscar Velasco Fuentes [Opens in a new window]
Oscar Velasco Fuentes*
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Departamento de Oceanografía Física, CICESE, Ensenada, B.C. 22860, México
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Abstract

Equal coaxial symmetrically located helical vortices translate and rotate steadily while preserving their shape and relative position if they move in an unbounded inviscid incompressible fluid. In this paper, the linear and angular velocities of this set of vortices ($U$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$ respectively) are computed as the sum of the mutually induced velocities found by Okulov (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 521, 2004, pp. 319–342) and the self-induced velocities found by Velasco Fuentes (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 836 2018). Numerical computations of the velocities using the Helmholtz integral and the Biot–Savart law, as well as numerical simulations of the flow evolution under the Euler equations, are used to verify that the theoretical results are accurate for $N=1,\ldots ,4$ vortices over a broad range of values of the pitch and radius of the vortices. An analysis of the flow topology in a reference system that translates with velocity $U$ and rotates with angular velocity $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$ serves to determine the capacity of the vortices to transport fluid.

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Mathematical Foundations: Mathematical Foundations Mathematical Foundations: Topological fluid dynamics Vortex Flows: Vortex Flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 842 , 10 May 2018 , R2
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