Fluid Vortices

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Introduction to Vorticity

   • Sheldon I. Green

   Pages 1-34

3. Mixing Layer Vortices

   • Marcel R. Lesieur

   Pages 35-63

4. Vorticity in Jets

   • Fernando F. Grinstein, Mark N. Glauser, William K. George

   Pages 65-94

5. Vortex Rings

   • T. T. Lim, T. B. Nickels

   Pages 95-153

6. Vortex Dynamics in the Wake of a Cylinder

   • Charles H. K. Williamson

   Pages 155-234

7. Turbulent Wall-Layer Vortices

   • C. R. Smith, J. D. A. Walker

   Pages 235-289

8. Compressible Vortices

   • D. Bershader

   Pages 291-316

9. Vortex Stability

   • Robert L. Ash, Mehdi R. Khorrami

   Pages 317-372

10. Breakdown of Slender Vortices

    • W. Althaus, CH. Brücker, M. Weimer

    Pages 373-426

11. Wing Tip Vortices

    • Sheldon I. Green

    Pages 427-469

12. Vortices in Aero-Propulsion Systems

    • I. A. Waitz, E. M. Greitzer, C. S. Tan

    Pages 471-531

13. Vortex-Structure Interaction

    • R. D. Blevins

    Pages 533-574

14. Mathematical Modelling of Solitary Oceanographic Vortices

    • G. E. Swaters

    Pages 575-615

15. Atmospheric Vortices

    • Roger A. Pielke, Joseph L. Eastman, Lewis D. Grasso, John B. Knowles, Melville E. Nicholls, Robert L. Walko et al.

    Pages 617-650

16. Three-Dimensional Vortex Dynamics Simulations

    • Eckart Meiburg

    Pages 651-685

17. Vorticity Interactions with a Free Surface

    • Edwin P. Rood

    Pages 687-730

18. Vortex Cavitation

    • R. E. A. Arndt

    Pages 731-782

19. Bubble Interactions with Vortices

    • Georges L. Chahine

    Pages 783-828

20. Particle Interactions with Vortices

    • C. T. Crowe, T. R. Troutt, J. N. Chung

    Pages 829-861

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.

• cavitation
• dynamics
• environment
• mixing
• stability
• vortices

`Upon opening the book, one is immediately struck by the impressive flow visualization and numerical simulation results that fill its pages, including 16 color plates in the beginning of the book. I know of no other book that provides an overview of vortex physics with anything close to the thoroughness given here. ... an invaluable contribution ... I highly recommend Fluid Vortices. In only a few weeks, it has become one of my favorite books.'
J.S. Marshall in Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, July 1996

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Sheldon I. Green

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