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The Fascination of Vortex Rings

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We present inviscid and viscous models for the formation and propagation of single, and co-axial pairs of, vortex rings. Inviscid flows are based on both thin rings, and thick rings treated by a contour dynamics approach, whilst viscous flows are determined from numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. A kaleidoscope of different flow behaviours for these axisymmetric flows is presented.

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

    N. Riley

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  1. J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Mechanics, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Arie Biesheuvel

  2. J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Mechanics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Gertjan F. van Heijst

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Riley, N. (1998). The Fascination of Vortex Rings. In: Biesheuvel, A., van Heijst, G.F. (eds) In Fascination of Fluid Dynamics. Fluid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4986-0_11

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