Weakly nonlinear saturation of short-wave instabilities in a strained Lamb-Oseen vortex

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1715-1729

  Sipp, Denis ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS; RESONANCE; STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER WAVES;

AMPLITUDE EQUATIONS; LAMB-OSEEN VORTEX; SHORT WAVE INSTABILITIES; WEAKLY NONLINEAR SATURATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

INSTABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NON-LINEAR SYSTEM; VORTEX;

EID: 0033949692     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870422     Document Type: Article

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