Unsteady behaviour of a topography-modulated tripole

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 11-41

  Velasco Fuentes, O U ^a,b   Van Heijst, G J F ^b   Van Lipzig, N P M ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIPOLE; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; UNSTEADY FLOW;

LOBE DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; PARABOLIC TOPOGRAPHY; POINT VORTEX TRIPOLE; TRIPOLAR VORTEX;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0029657016     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s002211209600002x     Document Type: Article

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