Instability and transient growth for two trailing-vortex pairs

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 350, Issue , 1997, Pages 311-330

  Crouch, J D ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STABILITY; TRANSIENTS; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

VORTEX PAIRS;

WAKES;

EID: 0031273230     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112097007040     Document Type: Article

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