Colliding vortex rings

Timothy Fohl, J. S. Turner

The Physics of Fluids · 1975 · 91 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

Laboratory observations of the interaction between pairs of vortex rings during certain collisions are described. A theory is advanced, based on the resonance of the forced motion with the elliptical mode of oscillation of a single vortex, and is found to be in agreement with the observed behavior.

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