Three-dimensional stability of elliptical vortex columns in external strain flows

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

Volumn 354, Issue 1709, 1996, Pages 895-926

  Bayly, B J ^a   Holm, D D ^b   Lifschitz, A ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMNS; FLOWS; STABILITY; STRAIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL; VORTICES;

EID: 0029656539     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0036     Document Type: Article

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