vorts

Integrate a system of N point vortices.

• pdoc3 documentation: zmoon.github.io/vorts
• GitHub: zmoon/vorts
• Examples:
  • – JupyterLab interface (need to right click on a *.py to open as notebook)
  • – Jupyter Notebook interface (just double click on a *.py to open as notebook)

Equations

Example visualizations

Releasing tracers into the rotating N-vortex system:

Poincaré plots. Given a sufficiently long run with a large number (e.g. 100) of tracers, you can make pretty pictures like this:

Notes

Originally created for the PSU class METEO 523 – Modeling the climate system.