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Vorticism was a London-based
modernist art
movement formed in 1914 by the
writer and
artist Wyndham Lewis. The
movement was
partially inspired by Cubism...
- In
continuum mechanics,
vorticity is a
pseudovector (or
axial vector)
field that
describes the
local spinning motion of a
continuum near some
point (the...
- The
vorticity equation of
fluid dynamics describes the
evolution of the
vorticity ω of a
particle of a
fluid as it
moves with its flow; that is, the local...
- In
fluid mechanics,
potential vorticity (PV) is a
quantity which is
proportional to the dot
product of
vorticity and stratification. This quantity, following...
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Positive vorticity advection, or PVA, is the
result of more
cyclonic values of
vorticity advecting into
lower values of
vorticity. It is more generally...
- The
barotropic vorticity equation ****umes the
atmosphere is
nearly barotropic,
which means that the
direction and
speed of the
geostrophic wind are independent...
- are a
major component of
turbulent flow. The
distribution of velocity,
vorticity (the curl of the flow velocity), as well as the
concept of circulation...
- Entropy-
vorticity waves (or
sometimes entropy-vortex waves)
refer to small-amplitude
waves carried by the gas
within which entropy,
vorticity, density...
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Vorticity confinement (VC), a physics-based com****tional
fluid dynamics model analogous to
shock capturing methods, was
invented by Dr. John Steinhoff...
- hard-sphere models, and
Gaussian cluster theories.
Landau thought that
vorticity entered superfluid helium-4 by
vortex sheets, but such
sheets have since...
