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  • Gallery of Fluid Motion
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Sculpting the Sphinx

Samuel Boury, Scott Weady, and Leif Ristroph*

  • Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute, New York University, New York, New York 10012, USA

  • *Corresponding author: ristroph@cims.nyu.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 110503 – Published 16 November, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.110503

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This paper is associated with a poster winner of a 2022 American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original poster is available online at the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2022.GFM.P0030

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 110503– Published 16 November, 2023
  • Received 17 June 2023
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