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Generation of secondary vorticity in a stratified fluid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

A. W. Marris
A. W. Marris
Affiliation:
School of Engineering Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Abstract

The theory is presented for the generation of secondary vorticity in a stratified fluid. The analysis is a generalization of original work of Hawthorne (1951). It is shown that for an incompressible, inviscid and non-diffusive flow, a flowwise vorticity component will be generated in a curved stream when a density gradient exists in the direction of the bi-normal to the streamline.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , October 1964 , pp. 177 - 181
Copyright
© 1964 Cambridge University Press

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