Fluid Vortices Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications

Fluid Vortices is a comprehensive, up-to-date, research-level overview covering all salient flows in which fluid vortices play a significant role. The various chapters have been written by specialists from North America, Europe and Asia, making for unsurpassed depth and breadth of coverage. Topics addressed include fundamental vortex flows (mixing layer vortices, vortex rings, wake vortices, vortex stability, etc.), industrial and environmental vortex flows (aero-propulsion system vortices, vortex-structure interaction, atmospheric vortices, computational methods with vortices, etc.), and multiphase vortex flows (free-surface effects, vortex cavitation, and bubble and particle interactions with vortices). The book can also be recommended as an advanced graduate-level supplementary textbook. The first nine chapters of the book are suitable for a one-term course; chapters 10--19 form the basis for a second one-term course.

I Introduction to Vorticity.- II Mixing Layer Vortices.- III Vorticity in Jets.- IV Vortex Rings.- V Vortex Dynamics in the Wake of a Cylinder.- VI Turbulent Wall-Layer Vortices.- VII Compressible Vortices.- VIII Vortex Stability.- IX Breakdown of Slender Vortices.- X Wing Tip Vortices.- XI Vortices in Aero-Propulsion Systems.- XII Vortex-Structure Interaction.- XIII Mathematical Modelling of Solitary Oceanographic Vortices.- XIV Atmospheric Vortices.- XV Three-Dimensional Vortex Dynamics Simulations.- XVI Vorticity Interactions with a Free Surface.- XVII Vortex Cavitation.- XVIII Bubble Interactions with Vortices.- XIX Particle Interactions with Vortices.