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Trailing vortices, swirling flows in pipes, vortical flows above sweptback wings at large angles-of-attack, flows in closed containers with a rotating lid, and columnar vortices in atmosphere may experience breakdown: The transformation of a slender vortex into three-dimensional forms. Where, how, and under what circumstances does this transformation occur in viscous vortical flows constitute the essence of the breakdown problem. Neither a stagnation point, nor a region of reversed flow, nor the bridging of laminar-turbulent states is necessary.
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Sarpkaya, T., Novak, F. (1998). Turbulent Vortex Breakdown: Experiments in Tubes at High Reynolds Numbers. In: Krause, E., Gersten, K. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Dynamics of Slender Vortices. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5042-2_24
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