Generation of secondary vorticity in a stratified fluid
- 1 October 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 20 (2) , 177-181
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112064001124
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.Keywords
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