Contents

• Introduction
• The discrete vortex method
• Numerical results
  • Vortex pairs
  • Vortex sheets
  • Remarks on the fast multipole method (FMM)
• MPI/FORTRAN implementation and timing
  • implementation and timing
• Conclusion
• Appendix: The codes
  • vortex.f
  • vortex2.f
  • fmm.CC
• Bibliography