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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

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<p><b>Cover image</b><br />Vortex axes at three different scales in developed turbulence (red, large; blue correspond to medium; grey, small scales). Self-similarity can be observed as the number density ratio of red to blue in the whole domain (the left panel) is similar to that of blue to grey in a subdomain (the right panel). Credit: Tsuruhashi T, Goto S, Oka S, Yoneda T. 2022 Self-similar hierarchy of coherent tubular vortices in turbulence. <i>Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A</i> <b>380</b>, 20210053. (doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2021.0053">10.1098/rsta.2021.0053</a>). </p>

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