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Past exam of the probability, statistics and options I course of the University of Oxford 2007 K 1 ii Solution by
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Take the curl of the Euler equations for an inviscid fluid. The gradient on the right has zero curl. Use the stated vector identity with , :incompressible flow gives , while a curl always has zero divergence, so . The remaining terms giveFor a two-dimensional velocity independent of , and . Thus the scalar vorticity is conserved following each fluid particle. It can still vary from particle to particle; this is advection, not a claim of spatially uniform vorticity.
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