A fast adaptive vortex method for patches of constant vorticity in two dimensions

Abstract We present a fast numerical method for solving the incompressible Euler's equation in two dimensions for the special case when the flow field can be represented by patches of constant vorticity. The method is an adaptive vortex method in which cells (vortex blobs) of multiple scales are used to represent the patches so that the number of vortex blobs needed to approximate the patches is proportional to the length of the boundary curve of the patch and inversely proportional to the width of the smallest blob (cell) used. Points along the boundaries of the patches are advected according to the velocity obtained from the approximating vortices.

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