Vorticity Equation #
Supporting results for the Constantin–Ignatova–Vicol axisymmetric regularity theorem.
The classical spatial partial derivative is the joint Fréchet derivative applied to the embedded spatial direction.
The classical time partial derivative is the joint Fréchet derivative applied to the embedded time direction.
If a scalar field is jointly smooth on the unit cylinder, so is each of its classical spatial partial derivatives.
If a scalar field is jointly smooth on the unit cylinder, so is its classical time partial derivative.
Cartesian mixed spatial partials of a jointly smooth scalar field commute.
The classical spatial and time partial derivatives of a jointly smooth scalar field commute.
Differentiating along the meridional plane in the radial direction, at fixed axial
coordinate and time, gives the classical radial spatial partial derivative
(the critical subtlety: eq:aniso:scalar:nse:r holds only on the meridional plane, so this
one-dimensional chain rule, not a naive Cartesian derivative, is what lets us differentiate
it).
Differentiating along the meridional plane in the axial direction, at fixed radial
coordinate and time, gives the classical axial spatial partial derivative (the same critical
subtlety as hasDerivAt_meridional_zero).
hasDerivAt_meridional_zero, restated so the basepoint and derivative value are read off
directly at the point itself.
hasDerivAt_meridional_two, restated so the basepoint and derivative value are read off
directly at the point itself.
The azimuthal vorticity equation eq:aniso:theta: away from the axis, the material
derivative of the azimuthal vorticity of a classical, forced, axisymmetric solution equals its
stretching by the radial velocity, the source ∂_z(u_θ²)/r, its cylindrical Laplacian, and the
azimuthal component of the curl of the force.