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The induced velocity in the windwise (axial) direction can be determined both upstream of the disc and downstream in the developing wake, as well as on the disc itself. This velocity is induced by the azimuthal component of vorticity in the cylindrical wake sheet at radius R (which generates an axisymmetric axial back‐flow within the wake) as shown for a radial section in Figure 3.9. Both radial and axial distances are divided by the disc radius, with the axial distance being measured downstream from the disc and the radial distance being measured from the rotational axis. The velocity is divided by the wind speed.

The axial velocity within the wake in this model falls discontinuously across the wake boundary from the external value and is radially uniform at the disc and in the far wake, just as the momentum theory predicts. There is a small acceleration of the flow around the disc immediately outside of the wake. The induced velocity at the wake cylinder surface itself and hence its convection velocity is −½ a at the disc and −a in the far wake.