Stable and unstable monopolar vortices in a stratified fluid

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 311, Issue , 1996, Pages 257-287

  Flor J B ^a,b   Van Heijst, G J F ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID MECHANICS; STRATIFIED FLOW; VORTICES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILITY; TOPOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL VORTEX MODELS; MONOPOLAR VORTICES; STRATIFIED FLUID; VORTICITY STREAM FUNCTION SCATTER PLOTS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0030088190     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096002595     Document Type: Article

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