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We report the experimental observation of vortex leapfrogging in a two-dimensional fluid of light. By imprinting two vortex-antivortex pairs and tracking their real-time evolution through phase-resolved imaging, we observe a dynamics that…
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In this paper, we are concerned with the uniqueness and nonlinear stability of vortex rings for the 3D Euler equation. By utilizing Arnold 's variational principle for steady states of Euler equations and concentrated compactness method…
Can every physical system simulate any Turing machine? This is a classical problem which is intimately connected with the undecidability of certain physical phenomena. Concerning fluid flows, Moore asked in [15] if hydrodynamics is capable…
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