Dynamically stretched vortices as solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 497-510

  Gibbon, J D ^a   Fokas, A S ^a   Doering, C R ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RICCATI EQUATIONS; STRAIN RATE; TURBULENT FLOW;

BURGERS VORTICES; LUNDGRENS TRANSFORMATION; PASSIVE SCALARS; STRETCHED VORTICES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0033359940     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00067-6     Document Type: Article

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