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physics.flu-dyn2015★ 11 cited
Dynamics of circular arrangements of vorticity in two dimensions
Rohith V. Swaminathan, S. Ravichandran, Prasad Perlekar +1
The merger of two like-signed vortices is a well-studied problem, but in a turbulent flow, we may often have more than two like-signed vortices interacting. We study the merger of…
physics.flu-dyn2015★ 37 cited
Caustics and clustering in the vicinity of a vortex
S. Ravichandran, Rama Govindarajan
We study the formation of caustics in vortex-dominated \flows. We \find that only particles starting within a critical distance of a vortex which scales as the square roots of the…