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Potential flow about two counter-rotating vortices approaching a free surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

John G. Telste
Affiliation:
David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD 20084-5000, USA

Abstract

The problem of calculating nonlinear two-dimensional free-surface potential flow about a pair of counter-rotating point vortices rising under their own influence towards a free surface is solved numerically. The two vortices are inserted into fluid which is initially at rest. A boundary/integral-equation method is used to obtain free-surface elevations and streamlines about the rising pair of vortices for several vortex strengths. The paths of the two vortices are compared with those of a counter-rotating vortex pair under a rigid wall.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1989 Cambridge University Press

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