Short-scale instabilities in trailing wake vortices in a stratified fluid

AIAA journal

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1916-1923

  Delisi, Donald P ^a   Robins, Robert E ^a  

^a NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA STABILITY; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WAKES;

SHORT-SCALE INSTABILITIES; STRATIFIED FLUIDS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0034298770     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.845     Document Type: Article

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