内容简介：
This text is a comprehensive, research-level overview covering all salient flows in which fluid vortices play a significant role. The chapters have been written by specialists from North America, Europe and Asia. Topics addressed include: fundamental vortex flows (mixing layer vortices, vortex rings, wake vortices and vortex stability); industrial and environmental vortex flows (aero-propulsion system vortices, vortex-structure interaction, atmospheric vortices and computational methods with vortices); and multiphase vortex flows (free-surface effects, vortex cavitation and bubble and particle interactions with vortices). The book can also be used as an advanced graduate-level supplementary textbook. The first nine chapters of the book are suitable for a one-term course; chapters 10-19 can form the basis for a second one-term course.