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Dipolar vortex in an anticlockwise rotating platform. The mean depth is 0.85 m and the rotating period of the system is 30 s. The radius of the visible cyclonic part is 0.80 m. The anticyclonic part is formed due to potential vorticity conservation as fluid columns are squeezed over an obstacle at the bottom (not visible). The flow is visualized with small particles floating on the free surface and illuminated with a horizontal laser sheet. The experiments were performed at the Coriolis platform (CNRS/LEGI, Grenoble, France).
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Zavala Sansón, L., Barbosa Aguiar, A.C. (2012). Dipolar Vortex in a Rotating System. In: Klapp, J., Cros, A., Velasco Fuentes, O., Stern, C., Rodriguez Meza, M. (eds) Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Fluid Dynamics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17958-7_47
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