Document Type
Honors Thesis
Abstract
Vortices are ubiquitous in nature. From kitchen sinks to galaxies, they can be found everywhere. Usually, the swirling motion of fluids comes to mind when one thinks of vortices. Being significantly important in various fields such as engineering, physics, chemistry, and aerospace, it has been extensively studied for centuries. Still, we do not have an unambiguous and universally accepted definition of a vortex. Often vorticity is used to describe the vortex, which is accurate for rigid body rotation; however, this explanation is simply not true for the fluid flow in the boundary layer. For fluid rotation, pure shear deformation needs to be considered. In order to demonstrate that, we recreated Shapiro’s experiment where he used the rigid body (vorticity meter) rotation to show that the vorticity is the same thing as the vortex. Additionally, we used dyed ink to investigate if the same results still hold in fluid rotation as they did for the vorticity meter.
Publication Date
5-1-2022
Language
English
Faculty Mentor of Honors Project
Chaoqun Liu
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Bhattarai, Aayush, "A STUDY OF VORTEX AND VORTICITY IN A LAMINAR FLOW" (2022). 2022 Spring Honors Capstone Projects. 14.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_spring2022/14