Effects of the Coriolis force on the stability of Stuart vortices

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 356, Issue , 1998, Pages 353-379

  Leblanc, Stéphane ^a   Cambon, Claude ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANTICYCLONIC ROTATION; CORIOLIS FORCE; HYPERBOLIC STAGNATION POINTS; ORR-SOMMERFELD EQUATIONS; SQUIRE EQUATIONS; STUART VORTICES;

VORTEX FLOW;

CORIOLIS EFFECT; SHEAR FLOW; STABILITY; VORTEX;

CORIOLIS FORCE; SHEAR FLOW; STABILITY; STUART; VORTICES;

EID: 0032501944     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112097007982     Document Type: Article

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