Has this some application to vortex motion? http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1959.tb00018.x/pdf The question was first asked in 1686.
The effect is about a flame rotated around teh outer rim of a cylindrical vertical container. The fluid inside is said to rotate against the rotation of the flame. David David Jonsson, Sweden, phone callto:+46703000370