Two spheres dropped into water next to one another form asymmetric cavities. A single ball’s cavity is perfectly symmetric, and so are two spheres’, provided they are far enough apart. Keep reading
Tag: potential flow
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Here’s a potential flow field with heart-shaped streamlines, made just for you. Thank you to everyone for having helped made FYFD such a success over these 700 posts, whether by liking, Keep reading
Leapfrogging Vortices
This numerical simulation shows two pairs of vortices interacting in a leap-frogging motion. Another version shows the same situation but with a small perturbation in the rotational alignment that causes Keep reading