Widnall instabilities in vortex pairs

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1861-1874

  Sipp, Denis ^a   Jacquin, Laurent ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; VISCOSITY; WATER WAVES;

VORTEX PAIRS;

VORTEX FLOW;

INSTABILITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTEX;

EID: 0042827343     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1575752     Document Type: Article

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