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The starting vortex, and the circulation it pays for

The starting vortex, and the circulation it pays for
The starting vortex, and the circulation it pays for. A wing that has just begun to lift, and the vortex it shed as it started. The circulation round the wing and the circulation round the shed vortex are equal and opposite, so a circuit large enough to contain both has no circulation at all — which is what Kelvin's theorem requires of a circuit that began at rest.

A wing that has just begun to lift, and the vortex it shed as it started. The circulation round the wing and the circulation round the shed vortex are equal and opposite, so a circuit large enough to contain both has no circulation at all — which is what Kelvin's theorem requires of a circuit that began at rest.

7 essays call vortex-pair. 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 vortex-pair 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.

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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.

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