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The speed depends on the core; the slope does not

The speed depends on the core; the slope does not
The speed depends on the core; the slope does not. A ring's self-induced speed against the logarithm of the cutoff used to compute it. The line is a quadrature of the reduced integral; the dots are an independent sum of cross products over a hundred and twenty thousand straight segments. Both diverge as the cutoff is thinned — a filament of zero thickness would move infinitely fast — so no answer here is a ring's speed until a core model is chosen. The slope, Γ/4πR, is the same whatever is chosen, and is what the check measures.

A ring's self-induced speed against the logarithm of the cutoff used to compute it. The line is a quadrature of the reduced integral; the dots are an independent sum of cross products over a hundred and twenty thousand straight segments. Both diverge as the cutoff is thinned — a filament of zero thickness would move infinitely fast — so no answer here is a ring's speed until a core model is chosen. The slope, Γ/4πR, is the same whatever is chosen, and is what the check measures.

2 essays call vortex-ring. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

It is also the blast radius. Changing vortex-ring changes every figure listed here at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show — which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.

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What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.

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