Timeline for Why do co-rotating vortices coalesce, but not counter-rotating ones?
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| Jul 14, 2014 at 16:16 | comment | added | Bryson S. | I am giving Floris the nod (sadly I can give only one), but Mike definitely gets an assist on this one. Thanks to MSalters as well!!! | |
| Jul 14, 2014 at 16:15 | vote | accept | Bryson S. | ||
| Jul 14, 2014 at 14:25 | comment | added | Bryson S. | Also I think that if one vortex is considerably stronger than the other, the larger one can convect the smaller one around itself during the process whereby the two merge. | |
| Jul 13, 2014 at 22:52 | comment | added | Bryson S. | "They cancel and that leave you with only the vorticity around the outside of the two of them, which makes them merge." This is the part that I am looking for a deeper insight into. Helmholtz's theorem can very accurately predict the net vorticity/angular momentum of the merged vortex, but why do they come together? | |
| Jul 13, 2014 at 22:29 | history | answered | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |