Turbulent line vortices

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Abstract
An attempt has been made to establish the laws governing the flow in a turbulent line vortex. Up to the present time theoretical solutions for laminar flow have been used for comparison with experimental results for turbulent flow to find an ‘eddy viscosity’ term and its variation with various parameters. An approach is developed along lines similar to the methods used in turbulent boundary-layer theory and is found to be reasonably successful as far as the work has proceeded. It is predicted by theory, and confirmed by experiment, that the circulation in the vortex is proportional to the logarithm of radius under certain conditions. For the present experimental conditions, the vortices are found to be completely independent of viscosity effects when the parameter WZ/K0 exceeds 150, and above this value the experimental results may be correlated to give a universal distribution of circulation in the inner region of the vortex. Further experiments are necessary to verify and extend the results of these tests before any definite conclusions may be made regarding the circulation distribution in the outer core region of the vortex and the growth and development of the vortex.

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