Vortex streets generated by a moving momentum source in a stratified fluid

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 618-624

  Voropayev, S I ^a,b   Smirnov, S A ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

VORTEX STREETS;

VORTEX FLOW;

MOMENTUM; STRATIFICATION; VORTEX;

EID: 0037346473     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1539475     Document Type: Article

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