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  • Gallery of Fluid Motion
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Tracking the air exhaled by an opera singer

Philippe Bourrianne1, Paul R. Kaneelil1, Manouk Abkarian2, and Howard A. Stone1

  • 1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 2Centre de Biologie Structurale, CNRS UMR 5048, INSERM UMR 1054, University of Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 110503 – Published 15 November, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.110503

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This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2020 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 video is available online at the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2020.GFM.V0067.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 110503– Published 15 November, 2021
  • Received 6 August 2021
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