What I am struggling with that an atmospheric vortex is a heat engine. Even googs ai, can't do a diagram for me. Another key issue is how it starts, the physics must scale from very small to very large. Mere turbulence can't cut it.
We can have a pure curl vortex in a river, part of an eddy. There, we have impacting flows, offset and in opposite directions. The centre is a dropped water level, and attracts the stream, but the angular momentum stops a direct path, and it has to swirl around.
The biggest mistake of having no physics in atmospheric physics, is that they tend to apply this model to hurricanes, tornadoes, and the Arctic basin vortex. It doesn't come close.
The fun thing to remember that a vortex of importance is a heat engine. We invented the steam engine, which first started out as an expanding cylinder, pushing a pump, and then dumping cold water on it to reset the piston. Not very efficient. However, we learn with a heat engine that there is an input of heat energy, and that does work, force times distance, and there is waste heat.
The hurricane is a heat engine because it lasts a long time, and it grows. It is not forced turbulence. The working fluid is water. It is a low-pressure system much like engines used to do work from waste heat. We have to work with this concept to understand the weather. The heat engines rule.
-to be continued.
ps I gave up trying to get googs to do a diagram. They are too tied up with the standard 'tropical wave' explanation.
ps I'm ending this. Gives me a headache. I am just trying to create a model consistent with physics, rather than fantasy. Perhaps after I leave for the great physics gathering in the sky.
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