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Methods of measuring vorticity in turbulent flows

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Experimental methods which have been developed over the last three decades to measure one or more components of the vorticity vector are described and assessed. These include methods which estimate the velocity gradients comprising the various vorticity components, methods which sense fluid rotation directly, and methods which sense other fluid properties which can be related to vorticity.

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This paper was presented at the Ninth symposium on turbulence, University of Missouri-Rolla, October 1–3, 1984

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Wallace, J.M. Methods of measuring vorticity in turbulent flows. Experiments in Fluids 4, 61–71 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266561

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