# Motion of a helical vortex

@article{Fuentes2015MotionOA,
title={Motion of a helical vortex},
author={Oscar Velasco Fuentes},
journal={arXiv: Fluid Dynamics},
year={2015}
}
We study the motion of a single helical vortex in an unbounded, inviscid, incompressible fluid. The vortex is an infinite tube whose centerline is a helix and whose cross section is a circle of small radius (compared to the radius of curvature) where the vorticity is uniform and parallel to the centerline. Ever since Joukowsky (1912) deduced that this vortex translates and rotates steadily without change of form, numerous attempts have been made to compute these self-induced velocities. Here we…

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