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.
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.
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 vortex a wing leaves behind Circulation and lift
- A wall made by reflection Ideal flow
- The price of having ends Circulation and lift
- The force of getting going Ideal flow
- The span is the whole story Circulation and lift
- A ring moves because it is bent Circulation and lift
- Where the wake ends up Circulation and lift