This monograph introduces readers to the hydrodynamics of vortex formation and reviews the
last decade of active research in the field offering a unique focus on research topics at the
crossroads of traditional fluids and plasmas.Vortices are responsible for the process of
macroscopic transport of momentum energy and mass and are formed as the result of spontaneous
self-organization. Playing an important role in nature and technology localized coherent
vortices are regularly observed in shear flows submerged jets afterbody flows and in
atmospheric boundary layers sometimes taking on the form of vortex streets.In addition the
book addresses a number of open issues including but not limited to: which singularities are
permitted in a 2D Euler equation besides point vortices? Which other even more complex
localized vortices could be contained in the Euler equation? How do point vortices interact
with potential waves?
