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I've recently heard of an analogy between fluid dynamics and electromagnetism in which the velocity flow field is identified with the magnetic vector potential, (and therefore the vorticity is identified with the magnetic field), and the vector [itex]\omega \times v[/itex] is identified with the electric field.
I'm curious as to how far this analogy goes but haven't had much luck finding a completely systematic exploration of this. It looks to me like this isn't a perfect correspondence, because, for example, there seems to be a relationship between magnetic field, electric field, and the vector potential that doesn't exist in electromagnetism.
5 days ago I asked a very similar question on Stack Exchange but it hasn't attracted any attention.
I'm curious as to how far this analogy goes but haven't had much luck finding a completely systematic exploration of this. It looks to me like this isn't a perfect correspondence, because, for example, there seems to be a relationship between magnetic field, electric field, and the vector potential that doesn't exist in electromagnetism.
5 days ago I asked a very similar question on Stack Exchange but it hasn't attracted any attention.