Vortex rings

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 235-279

  Shariff, Karim ^a   Leonard, Anthony ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Incompressible and inviscid flows; Starting vortices; Turbulent vortices; Viscous flows; Vortex sound; Vorticity dynamics

Indexed keywords

MODELLING; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX RINGS;

EID: 0026794832     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fl.24.010192.001315     Document Type: Article

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