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Seminar
Speaker
Saumav Kapoor (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru)
Date & Time
Wed, 23 July 2025, 15:30 to 17:00
Venue
Feynman Lecture Hall
Resources
Abstract

Helicity is a topological invariant in ideal fluid dynamics, reflecting the knottedness of vortex structures. An important manifestation of helicity conservation is the natural tendency of vortex tubes to become anti-parallel during reconnection. Deviations from this anti-parallel configuration during reconnection are directly linked to helicity dissipation. In this talk, I will present a geometric framework for systematically perturbing vortex initial condition in a way that necessarily disrupts anti-parallel alignment during reconnection. Central to this approach is probing reconnection events in which the reconnecting points on the vortex lines undergo a bifurcation.

Zoom Meeting: https://icts-res-in.zoom.us/j/95233074587?pwd=uPKX5TnN5hNTRpJDuiSD6kQ7bkNWtI.1
Meeting ID: 952 3307 4587
Passcode: 223322