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Soap-film shots tell more about swirls

Psychedelic patterns of turbulence in flowing soap films yield for the first time to detailed mathematical analysis.

References:

Rivera, M., P. Vorobieff, and R.E. Ecke. 1998. Turbulence in flowing soap films: Velocity, vorticity, and thickness fields. Physical Review Letters 81(Aug. 17):1417.

Further Readings:

Peterson, I. 1994. Jupiter’s model spot. Science News 145(Feb. 19):120.

Web pages related to Peter Vorobieff’s research can be found at http://ekman.lanl.gov.

Sources:

Michael Rivera
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

John Sommerer
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, MD 20723-6099

Peter Vorobieff
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Condensed Matter and thermal Physics Group
Center for Nonlinear Studies
Los Alamos, NM 87545

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