It is a known phenomenon that swirling jets transition to conical mode of vortex breakdown upon transverse acoustic excitation. To the best of our knowledge this is the first instance where we show that transverse acoustic forcing could lead to a hysteresis in swirling flows. The hysteresis leads to a bistable state between a bubble type vortex breakdown (BVB) and a conical vortex breakdown (CVB).
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