vorticity
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- noun
- /vɔrˈtɪsɪti/
- Specialized
- The scientist measured the vorticity in the fluid to understand its swirling behavior.
Examples
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A fun fact... the red "L" is a small vorticity maxima or upper-level low that will be bounced west for days under the blocking upper-level ridge.
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The flow trajectories were then animated, with twisting ribbons indicating the local level of turbulence or vorticity.
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His early spanwise vorticity measurements remain some of the best resolved ever.
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ALLISON: That's the vorticity stretching.
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His research has been on unsteady flows, vorticity dynamics, mixing, experimental methods, and turbulent boundary layers.
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Experiments have demonstrated that the formation of VIVs can be affected by such factors as the condition of the cylinder surface, vorticity in the ambient flow, and fluid conditions affecting water viscosity, such as salinity and temperature.
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Turbulence pattern-making flows have non-zero vorticity and are characterized by a strong three-dimensional vortex generation mechanism known as vortex stretching.
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Meteorologists analyze the vorticity of the air to predict weather patterns accurately.
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As the water flowed over the rocks, its vorticity created small whirlpools in the stream.
How Swirling
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Surface Forms
Morphology
vorticity = vortex (semi-transparent) = vortic + ity
The relationship to 'vortex' (whirl) is clear, but 'vorticity' is a technical measure in fluid dynamics and not an everyday meaning for average learners.
Etymology
The word vorticity comes from the familiar word vortex, which means 'whirl' or 'eddy', and the ending -ity which turns a word into a 'state' or thing. So, vorticity is the 'state of whirling', which explains why it measures how much a fluid is rotating or swirling.