Physics duo create first knotted vortex in a fluid (w/ video)

Monday, March 4, 2013 - 07:00 in Physics & Chemistry

(Phys.org) —Physicists William Irvine and Dustin Kleckner of the University of Chicago, have for the first time, created a knotted vortex in a fluid. They describe how they printed 3D airfoils and then accelerated them very quickly in a tank of bubble-filled water to accomplish this feat in their paper published in the journal Nature Physics.

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