First experimental evidence of vortex splitting

P. Freymuth, W. Bank, M. Palmer

The Physics of Fluids · 1984 · 20 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Movie sequences of vortex patterns visualized by smoke in a two-dimensional starting flow around an airfoil indicate the process of vortex splitting predicted by Moore and Saffman and by Christiansen and Zabusky for some vortical flows.

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