Spatio-temporal development of the long and short-wave vortex-pair instabilities

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1247-1250

  Fabre, David ^a   Cossu, Carlo ^a,b   Jacquin, Laurent ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTABILITY; VORTEX;

EID: 0034045910     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870375     Document Type: Article

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