1995: Vortex Computations

• Basically a Lagrangian computation.
• Represent the vorticity by `blobs' of vorticity called vortices.
• The vortices move with the local fluid velocity which can be found cleverly (Van Dommelen & Rundensteiner 1989.)
• The vortices diffuse out which can be simulated cleverly (Shankar & Van Dommelen 199)
• Applied to the circular cylinder (Van Dommelen & Shankar 1995 in preparation).
• Not the first computations, but one of the best.

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