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LeanPool.CIVAxisymmetric.Identities.ScalarSystemSwirl

The swirl component of the scalar Navier–Stokes equation on the meridional plane #

eq:aniso:scalar:nse:swirl is the swirl component of the momentum equation restricted to the meridional plane {x₂ = 0} off the axis. It states that the time derivative, the cylindrical convective term u_r ∂_r u_θ + u_z ∂_z u_θ + u_r u_θ / r, and the forcing balance the cylindrical Laplacian ∂_r² u_θ + r⁻¹ ∂_r u_θ + ∂_z² u_θ - r⁻² u_θ.

The angular derivative of the pressure drops out of the swirl component because the pressure of a classical solution with axisymmetric velocity and axisymmetric force is itself axisymmetric (pressure_rotZ_invariant). The rotation invariance of the pressure is therefore not a hypothesis here: only the axisymmetry of the force is.