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Visualizing Wingtip Vortices

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Wingtip vortices have a big effect on aircraft safety and efficiency.

A wingtip vortex begins to form in the wind tunnel.

At some wind tunnel conditions, the flow shows the imprint of honeycomb structures used to smooth out the flow ahead of the test section.

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