Loops forming when one of the branches reaches the boundary of the system - a phenomenon that researchers describe in the recent publication they first noticed in the canal network of the Aurelia ...

The first attempt to understand the formation of loops in such systems was made a few years ago by the group of Prof. Piotr Szymczak from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.

“We look at plasma physics and turbulence every day in the sun,” Irvine said, yet such phenomena pose longstanding, unsolved scientific puzzles. But knots may offer a means of untangling the ...

Vortex loops could untie knotty physics problems Date: March 4, 2013 Source: University of Chicago Summary: Physicists have succeeding in creating a vortex knot -- a feat akin to tying a smoke ...