Elliptical vortices in shear: Hamiltonian moment formulation and Melnikov analysis

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 896-913

  Ngan, Keith ^a   Meacham, Steve ^b   Morrison, P J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPTICAL; SHEAR FLOW; VORTICES;

EID: 0029656396     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868870     Document Type: Article

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