Stability of periodic arrays of vortices

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 487-495

  Dauxois, Thierry ^a   Fauve, Stephan ^a   Tuckerman, Laurette ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW STABILITY; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; VORTICES;

EID: 0029656393     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868802     Document Type: Article

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