FORMA
Forma, Vol. 8 (No. 1), pp. 5-13, 1993
Review

Smoke Visualization of a Vortex Ring and a Vortex Pair

Hideo Yamada and Takashi Naitoh

Department of Systems Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466, Japan

(Received April 26, 1993; Accepted June 4, 1993)

Keywords: Smoke Visualization, Vortex Ring, Vortex Pair

Abstract. This paper presents six topics concerning vortex motions. Flow fields due to interactions of a vortex with either another vortex or a solid boundary are visualized by smoke. Some specific features are discussed with forms of smoke appearing during interaction process and with trajectories of vortices obtained indirectly from the successive photographs.