irrotational
Adjective
Meaning
Not rotatory; passing from one point to another by a movement other than rotation; -- said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yielding mass.
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Field theory interpretation For an irrotational vector field in three-dimensional space, the inverse-square law corresponds to the property that the divergence is zero outside the source.
Compressible flow Steady flow Potential flow theory can also be used to model irrotational compressible flow.
Here, the projections are accomplished by the orthogonality of the solenoidal and irrotational function spaces.
The Cauchy-Riemann equations imply that : Thus every analytic function corresponds to a steady incompressible, irrotational fluid flow in the plane.
The discrete weak equation for the pressure gradient is, : where the test/weight functions are irrotational.