The aim of the course is to get students familiar with one of the central concepts of fluid mechanics: vorticity and vortices.
The presence of coherent vortex-like structures in a wide variety of flows of fundamental (turbulence), geophysical and environmental, or applied (aeronautics in particular) nature will be demonstrated through numerous examples.
This course provides the students with physical and analytical tools necessary to understand the notion of vortices, their dynamics and their characterisation. This course is also intended for PhD students.