Excess dissipation of a Burgers vortex
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The swirl viscous dissipation of a steady Burgers vortex, integrated per unit length and per unit density, is . It remains finite as kinematic viscosity tends to zero at fixed strain and circulation. This is excess over the background strain: the uniform strain itself has infinite total viscous dissipation over an infinite cross-section.
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