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Now that we have looked at straight, parallel filaments, it is time to look at curved ones. Two-dimensional vorticity is a very special case of fluid flow that tends to apply to thin films, atmospheres, and structures with high angular momentum. In aeronautical or hydrodynamical applications such as turbulent sheer flow, vortices can be filaments or rings with a more complex topology such as trefoil knots (Fig. 5.1).
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Andersen, T.D., Lim, C.C. (2014). Curved Filaments. In: Introduction to Vortex Filaments in Equilibrium. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1938-3_5
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