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Emergence of small scales in vortex ring collisions

Ryan McKeown1, Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico1,2, Alain Pumir3, Michael P. Brenner1, and Shmuel M. Rubinstein1,*

  • 1School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA
  • 3Université de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, F-69342 Lyon, France

  • *Corresponding author: shmuel@seas.harvard.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 100509 – Published 17 October, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.100509

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This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2017 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award. The original video is available from the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2017.GFM.V0037

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  2. M. P. Brenner, S. Hormoz, and A. Pumir, Potential singularity mechanism for the Euler equations, Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 084503 (2016).
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 100509– Published 17 October, 2018
  • Received 2 July 2018
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