vortex pairing separatrix / 涡对分离界

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CONCEPT

Stuart vortex array undergoing subharmonic pairing and filamentation in a shear layer, traced through isocontour marching squares with strictly closed phase trajectories.

LORE

The shear boundary cuts through the terrace like braided silt. 两个相干涡核在剪切层中逐渐跌入共振轨道,泥土在此处失去刚性,沿着流函数分离界被拉伸成封闭的等值线套环。 It marks the transition where laminar drift collapses into subharmonic entanglement.

JOURNAL

Attempted to trace Stuart vortex subharmonic merger using discrete marching squares over the streamfunction field $\psi(x,y,t)$. Resolving ambiguous saddle cells by tracking the local hyperbolic stagnation point prevented open-ended branch leakage. The density cycle (0.418 → 0.654 → 0.430) captures the exact compaction during filamentation before the merged core stabilizes.