First experimental evidence of vortex splitting
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- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 27 (5) , 1045-1046
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.Keywords
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