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Kirchhoff vortex

An idealized vortex in an unbounded fluid with uniform vorticity inside an elliptical patch and zero vorticity outside. For an ellipse with semiaxes a and b and vorticity ω in its interior, it rotates steadily with angular velocity ω(ab/(a + b)2).

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