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"In nature, plants change their shape, or reconfigure in response to high speed flows. We can produce something similar in the lab."

Depending on the elasticity of the disk and the speed of the flow, disks may reconfigure dramatically.

As the disk reconfigures, its trailing vortex gets narrower.

←Bag Formation

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