The stability of short waves on a straight vortex filament in a weak externally imposed strain field

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1976, Pages 721-733

  Tsai, Chon Yin ^a   Widnall, Sheila E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRAIN - ANALYSIS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

AERODYNAMICS; PERTURBATIONS; STABILITY; STRAIN FIELD; VORTEX FILAMENT; VORTEX RINGS; VORTICES; WAVES;

EID: 18344399782     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112076001584     Document Type: Article

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