Video 6

Movie S6. A Biot–Savart simulation of a helical vortex ring leap-frogging a perfectly circular ring. A rendering of the 3D vortex paths is shown, along with the helicity and length as a function of time. The stretching and compressing experienced by the helical ring causes its helicity to vary dramatically.

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