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Phys Rev Lett
; 100(17): 174503, 2008 May 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18518296
ABSTRACT
We experimentally corroborate the core analytical deductions of Thomson's 124-year-old theorem, vis-à-vis the stability of a ring of N vortices. Observations made in water vortices produced inside a cylinder via a revolving disk confirm that the regular N-gons are stable for N