click here for the plus home page
© 1997-2009, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.
Permission is granted to print and copy this page on paper for non-commercial use. For other uses, including electronic redistribution, please contact us.
March 2009
Features
icon

Births and deaths in fluid chaos

by Marianne Freiberger



The movie below shows the fluid flow evolving over time, with elliptic points marked by circles and hyperbolic points marked by crosses. Watch out for the births and deaths of pairs of points.



Return to main article