Motion of an elliptic vortex ring and particle transport

Abstract

Motion of an elliptic vortex ring is considered as an example of unsteady 3D vortex motion. The Local Induction Equation is used for the analysis. By keeping the self-induction constant and changing its value in the equation, different features of particle motion around an elliptic vortex ring, corresponding to thin and fat vortex rings, can be observed numerically. © 2008 Springer.