Monopolar vortices in an irrotational annular shear flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 360, Issue , 1998, Pages 273-294

  Trieling, R R ^a,b   Linssen, A H ^a   Van Heijst, G J F ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTEX FLOW;

CONTOUR DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; MONOPOLAR VORTICES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0032050519     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098008593     Document Type: Article

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