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Kirchhoff vortex

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

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