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Experiments find that vortex merging occurs naturally in a laminar separation bubble. Acoustic forcing at the subharmonic and fundamental vortex shedding frequency promotes and inhibits merging, respectively. In all cases, merging occurs in the aft portion of the bubble in a spanwise nonuniform manner.
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Kurelek et al. (2019) studied this question.
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