45° of corner, and an infinite number of eddies in it
The creeping flow in a corner of 45 degrees, drawn from Moffatt's similarity solution. Each eddy turns the opposite way to its neighbours and is 3.17 times smaller and 1.6e+3 times weaker than the one outside it. The contour levels are rescaled inside each eddy, because they differ in strength by three orders of magnitude per step and a single set of levels would show the first and nothing else — which is itself the reason nobody has seen the third. The dividing lines between eddies are drawn where the stream function changes sign, and the dots are the centres, both found from the solved field.
2 essays call
corner-eddy. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every
call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member
of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.
It is also the blast radius. Changing corner-eddy changes every figure listed here
at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show —
which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.
Where it is called
What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.
- The eddies nobody stirs Viscosity
- The cheapest shape the walls allow Viscosity