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Vortices are studied in various scientific disciplines, offering insights into fluid flow behavior. Visualizing the boundary of vortices is crucial for understanding flow phenomena and detecting flow irregularities. This paper addresses the…

We describe a new method for computing coherent Lagrangian vortices in two-dimensional flows according to any of the following approaches: black-hole vortices [Haller & Beron-Vera, 2013], objective Eulerian Coherent Structures (OECSs)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-23 Daniel Karrasch , Nathanael Schilling

This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the formation and dissipation of vortices within chaotic fluid flows, leveraging the framework of Sobolev and Besov spaces on Riemannian manifolds. Building upon the Navier-Stokes equations,…

We present a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the formation and decay kinetics of vortices in two dimensional, compressible quantum turbulence. We follow the temporal evolution of a quantum fluid of exciton polaritons,…

The motion of noncircular two-dimensional vortices is shown to depend on a form of coupling between vortex ellipticity and the gradient of fluid density. The approach is based on the perspective that an elliptic vortex can be described as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jasmine M. Andersen , Andrew A. Voitiv , Mark E. Siemens , Mark T. Lusk

Quantum vortices play a crucial role in both equilibrium and dynamical phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) superfluid systems. Experimental detection of these excitations in 2D ultracold atomic gases typically involves examining density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-20 Magnus Sesodia , Shinichi Sunami , En Chang , Erik Rydow , Christopher J. Foot , Abel Beregi

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…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-10 Myrann Baker-Rasooli , Nathan du Toit , Nicolas Pavloff , Quentin Glorieux

Investigating vorticity dynamics provides an effective way for understanding the fundamental mechanisms of fluid flows across diverse scales. However, experimental vorticity measurements often suffer from limited spatial and temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-31 Jiaqi Li , Jiarong Hong

Topological defects such as dislocations and disclinations are predicted to determine the twodimensional (2-D) melting transition. In 2-D superconducting vortex lattices, macroscopic measurements evidence melting close to the transition to…

3D-printed microfluidic devices offer new ways to study fluid dynamics. We present the first clear visualization of vortex breakdown in a dividing T-junction flow. By individual control of the inflow and two outflows, we decouple the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-29 San To Chan , Simon J. Haward , Amy Q. Shen

Thin cylindrical membranes arise in a wide variety of biological systems ranging from tubular structures on and within cell membranes to in-vitro experiments on artificial vesicles. Motor proteins embedded in such fluidic membranes often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-09 Udaya Maurya , Surya Teja Gavva , Arpan Saha , Rickmoy Samanta

The Lattice-Boltzmann method is a mesoscopic approach for solving hydrodynamic problems involving both laminar and turbulent fluids. Although the suitability for the former cases is supported by a myriad of studies, turbulent flows always…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 Raquel Dapena-García , Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri

The venerable 2D point-vortex model plays an important role as a simplified version of many disparate physical systems, including superfluids, Bose-Einstein condensates, certain plasma configurations, and inviscid turbulence. This system is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-29 Spencer A. Smith , Bruce M. Boghosian

We connect an appropriate feedback loop to a model of 2D vertical eddy of airflow which unfolds a wide range of vorticity behavior. Computational fluid dynamics of the twisted roll display a class of long lifespan 3D vortices. On the one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Safieddine Bouali

Recent developments in vortex particle methods for simulating three-dimensional incompressible flows are presented. A lightweight, dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation model is tested, featuring a dynamic procedure that relies solely on Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Flavio A. C. Martins , Alexander van Zuijlen , Carlos J. Simao Ferreira

We consider geodesics on the surfaces obtained by weak deformations of the standard 2D-sphere. The dynamics of a particle on the surface can be asymptotically described by the averaged evolution of the particle's angular momentum. It is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-30 D. O. Sinitsyn

Unsteady inviscid flow models of wings and airfoils have been developed to study the aerodynamics of natural and man-made flyers. Vortex methods have been extensively applied to reduce the dimensionality of these aerodynamic models, based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Xi Xia , Kamran Mohseni

In this work we study the dynamical behavior of two interacting vortex pairs, each one of them consisting of two point vortices with opposite circulation in the 2d plane. The vortices are considered as effective particles and their…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-31 Brandon Whitchurch , Panayotis. G. Kevrekidis , Vassilis Koukouloyannis

We consider a stochastic version of the point vortex system, in which the fluid velocity advects single vortices intermittently for small random times. Such system converges to the deterministic point vortex dynamics as the rate at which…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Andrea Agazzi , Francesco Grotto , Jonathan C. Mattingly

Small-scale vortices in the solar photosphere play a central role in transporting mass, energy, and momentum into the upper solar atmosphere, yet reliably detecting these structures remains rather challenging. We address this problem by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Lauren McClure , Suzana Silva , Gary Verth , Istvan Ballai , Viktor Fedun