The relaxation of vorticity fluctuations in approximately elliptical streamlines

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 456, Issue 1994, 2000, Pages 295-314

  Bassom, Andrew P ^a   Gilbert, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elliptical streamlines; Inviscid relaxation; Planar vortex; Spiral wind up

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000200432     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2000.0518     Document Type: Article

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