Video 4

Movie S4. A volumetric image and helistogram for a vortex that is initially a trefoil knot, displayed as in Movie S3. The trefoil knot goes through three reconnections to become a pair of unlinked rings, although it is only possible to track it through the first two reconnections.

Helicity conservation by flow across scales in reconnecting vortex links and knots

Martin W. Scheeler, Dustin Kleckner, Davide Proment, Gordon L. Kindlmann, and William T. M. Irvine

PNAS. 2014. 111:15350-15355 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407232111