Reconnection of infinitely thin antiparallel vortices and coherent structures

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Abstract: One of the characteristic features of turbulent flows is the emergence of many vortices which interact, deform, and intersect, generating chaotic movement. The evolution of a pair of vortices, e.g. condensation trails of a plane, can be considered as a basic element of a turbulent flow. This simple example nevertheless demonstrates very rich behavior which still lacks a complete explanation. We present a new model describing these phenomena based on the approximation of an infinitely thin vortex, which allows us to focus on the chaotic movement of the vortex center line. The main advantage of the developed model consists in the ability to go beyond the reconnection time and to see the coherent structures. They turn to be very reminiscent to the ones obtained from the local induction approximation applied to a polygonal vortex. It can be considered as an evidence that a pair of vortices creates a corner singularity in the reconnection point.




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