Mutual slip‐through of two identical vortex rings, traveling along a common axis in the same direction, was experimentally achieved in air at various Reynolds numbers between 800 and 2000 and observed by using the smoke wire technique and cigarette smoke. The motions of a pair of vortices agree very well with an approximate potential theory based on the Biot–Savart law.
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