The spiral wind-up of vorticity in an inviscid planar vortex

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 371, Issue , 1998, Pages 109-140

  Bassom, Andrew P ^a   Gilbert, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

LINEAR VORTICITY; VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0032155984     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098001955     Document Type: Article

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