This contribution to an issue of Comptes rendus Mécanique, commemorating the scientific work of Jean-Jacques Moreau (1923–2014), is intended to give a brief overview of recent developments in the study of helicity dynamics in real fluids and an outlook on the growing legacy of Moreau's work. Moreau's discovery of the conservation of hydrodynamic helicity, presented in an article in the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences in 1961, was not recognized until long after it was published. This seminal contribution is gaining a new life now that modern developments allow the study of helicity and topology in fields and is having a growing impact on diverse areas of physics.
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author = {William T.M. Irvine},
title = {Moreau's hydrodynamic helicity and the life of vortex knots and links},
journal = {Comptes Rendus. M\'ecanique},
pages = {170--174},
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William T.M. Irvine. Moreau's hydrodynamic helicity and the life of vortex knots and links. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 346 (2018) no. 3, pp. 170-174. doi : 10.1016/j.crme.2017.12.006. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.1016/j.crme.2017.12.006/
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