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In looking up stuff on Reynold Number in connection with the perpetual motion thread I came across this paper. I thought it might attract interest in this OFF TOPIC FORUM.

http://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/ciencias ... 201973.htm
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E.M. Purcell in the article wrote:You can invent other animals that have no trouble swimming. We had better be able to invent them, since we know they exist. One you might think of first as a physicist, is a torus. I don't know whether there is a toroidal animal, but whatever other physiological problems it might face, it clearly could swim at low Reynolds number (Fig. 8).
This calls for a video:

First: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnbJEg9r1o8
Second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LWr7BU8Ao
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Interesting demo of a half ring vortex. Pity about the commentator.

How about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHyTOcfF99o

This one's good too. Note the rising air bubble vortex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LGQ-jIet1s
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