Using some simple assumptions with regard to the boundary conditions and confining the considerations to flows with small Rossby numbers, a pattern of streamlines corresponding to an axial plane of an incompressible vortex flow in a cylindrical vortex chamber is computed. The pattern obtained agrees qualitatively, in the main regions, with velocity profile measurements and dye-injection flow visualization experiments.
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