r/nextfuckinglevel Mar 22 '23

Close up of an underwater Vortex Ring Connection

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u/Falagard Mar 22 '23

The fluid dynamics on this would be insane to try to simulate in a computer.

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u/Greenman8907 Mar 22 '23

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u/NoNameIdea_Seriously Mar 22 '23

I tried to e-mail the fire department but got no response!

Let’s call the emergency number!

Remember, it’s : 0118999881999119725-3.

That’s 0118999881999119725-3.

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u/more-duckling Mar 22 '23

It just helped me understand Magnetic Reconnection*!

*Which is simulated at the edge of neutron stars, where the magnetic field strengths are strong enough to lead to spontaneous pair production!

(Would be in the field of astro plasma physics)

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u/more-duckling Mar 22 '23

(the looping and folding of the field (vortex, here) would also be related (albeit opposite) to the dynamo effect responsible for generating earth's magnetic field)

...sorry to not attach links, but each term is easily searchable, and reconnection is what leads to the Auroras

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u/VexedYeti Mar 22 '23

Just wait until the GTX 9090 TI X comes out.

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u/xArschkopp Mar 22 '23

You do realize we are not in the gtx era anymore? Feel old yet?

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u/VexedYeti Mar 22 '23

Well, now I do.

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u/Enorats Mar 22 '23

On the bright side, if you had a computer that could manage it then you could probably run KSP2.

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u/ih-shah-may-ehl Mar 22 '23

That would be some pretty wild ass differential equations

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u/MrPumpkin21 Mar 22 '23

Reminds me of sonic

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u/flaman27 Mar 22 '23

we get it, you vape

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u/Banana_Ram_You Mar 22 '23

Can't vape underwater, ya dingus

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u/TacoSplosions Mar 22 '23

Not with that attitude you won't

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u/PsykiOfficial Mar 22 '23

I dont even want to r/woooosh you... dang it...

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u/Banana_Ram_You Mar 22 '23

hsoooow~

It's a good thing ya didn't wwooooshhhe me, cuz you'd only be woooshing yourself~ For your health~

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u/AgressiveSillySteing Mar 22 '23

It tossed a new ring off that slowly moved away into the distance

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u/jeffersonairmattress Mar 22 '23

When a mommy vortex and a daddy vortex love each other very much, baby vortices appear.

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u/Kharossgss512 Mar 22 '23

What is the SCIENCE behind this???

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u/Thud2 Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23

How is it that's something so light as air can maintain its momentum against something so heavy as water? Is this phenomenon actually water spinning around the ring of air that we cannot see? Someone should do this and inject some dye in the water around the air ring.

On further thought it obviously has to be this. What we are really seeing are hollow vortex rings of water filled with air..

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u/Foopensloot Mar 22 '23

There's a pretty good video that Smarter Every Day did with vortex rings with dyed water and had them collide. He also goes over how they work it's pretty solid. Here's the video

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u/Thud2 Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23

Thanks. I want to see this phenomenon, Underwater vortex rings with air to see the vortex tube of water surrounding and spinning around the air.

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u/Dude-88 Mar 23 '23

I love this...thank you for sharing!

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u/duggee315 Mar 22 '23

Looks like what I imagine huge things merging in space to look like.

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u/Remarkable_Nerve9729 Mar 22 '23

It’s oddly similar to a black hole collision. They just morph into a bigger one 🙃

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u/DrMike27 Mar 22 '23

Something, something, something…gravitational waves…something, something, something…LIGO

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u/goeers81 Mar 22 '23

Triggering some Starfox memories for me

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u/Rasp41 Mar 22 '23

Do a barrel roll!’

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u/kenthehuman6 Mar 22 '23

They fell in love and made a baby.

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u/curnologist Mar 22 '23

"This isn't even my final form!" - water rings, probably

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u/Dickcheese-a1 Mar 22 '23

Some Cocoon movie shit.

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u/SirRipOliver Mar 22 '23

When you forgot to take out the diaphragm and put in another diaphragm and they merge to form a tiny diaphragm

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u/KAULIANPOWER Mar 22 '23

Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make small rings bigger.

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u/AzraelChaosEater Mar 22 '23

Nah didn't you see that small ring sink towards the end? That fucker got his mass taken them tossed to the curb like yesterday's trash.

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u/offendingotter Mar 22 '23

That's beautiful

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u/Bobyyyyyyyghyh Mar 22 '23

Fuck now I'm thirsty. You made me get out of bed.

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u/MoonDogeXx Mar 22 '23

Superposition right there

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u/creperobot Mar 22 '23

I wonder if this is similar to magnetic fields merging?

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u/more-duckling Mar 22 '23

Yes, it is! ... At least in the topological transformation -- magnetic reconnection involves current sheets, and such, but those are feeling pretty like the flows here...

The folding and baby vortex would also be related to the dynamo effect.

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u/creperobot Mar 22 '23

Thanks, this could be used as inspiration for students then.

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u/Wolf3113 Mar 22 '23

Anyone got the jellyfish video when it gets hit win the spin cycle?

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u/ASwftKck2theNtz Mar 22 '23

Well...

I used to enjoy my lava lamp.

Now that's ruined. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/amonarre3 Mar 23 '23

Ecco the dolphin

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u/termacct Mar 22 '23

Now do this with farts

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u/Bmack27 Mar 22 '23

This just gave me the weirdest idea about how they could do something like this in the MCU with the sacred timeline. They way these colliding ended up spawning off a separate individual loop.

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u/Fit-Tip-1212 Mar 22 '23

ABC Australia logo intensifies

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u/One-Giraffe3105 Mar 22 '23

Can we do this but amplify the size x1000

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u/kudos1007 Mar 22 '23

Collision of an underwater black hole

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u/Click_Kaboom Mar 22 '23

Vortex agar.io

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u/JapaneseBulletTrain Mar 22 '23

I’m so mad that person breathed in the video

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u/Sea_Connection_8674 Mar 22 '23

Some Tusk act 4 vibes here.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

Sonic the hedgehog taught me to eat these if I’m ever drowning!

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u/NoNameIdea_Seriously Mar 22 '23

One thing, to rule them all…

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u/Mandrake1771 Mar 22 '23

I’ll bet it looks like a wiener from above for a minute

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u/SnarkyBustard Mar 23 '23

72 Comments and not a single Mario64 / Jolly Roger Bay reference so far?

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u/jimmyguy Mar 24 '23

Awesome! I couldn't have done it better.

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u/SS7788 Mar 24 '23

magnific

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u/OneScoobyDoes Apr 08 '23

Skinny dip!!

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u/Ok-Panic-3940 Mar 22 '23

Helicopter pilots hate this.

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u/Dubinku-Krutit Mar 22 '23

Obviously. They don't work well underwater.