A hairpin vortex state in plane Couette flow. A bundle of vortex lines reveals the symmetry of the new solution (left), which is absent in an existing solution (right).
From the article:
Hairpin Vortex Solution in Planar Couette Flow: A Tapestry of Knotted VorticesTomoaki Itano and Sotos C. Generalis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 114501 (2009)
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