Experimental confirmation of Kelvin's equilibria.

Autor: Vatistas GH; Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8, Canada. vatistas@encs.concordia.ca, Abderrahmane HA, Siddiqui MH
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2008 May 02; Vol. 100 (17), pp. 174503. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 Apr 30.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.174503
Abstrakt: We experimentally corroborate the core analytical deductions of Thomson's 124-year-old theorem, vis-à-vis the stability of a ring of N vortices. Observations made in water vortices produced inside a cylinder via a revolving disk confirm that the regular N-gons are stable for Nor=8. The N
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