Vortices near barriers with multiple gaps

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 531, Issue , 2005, Pages 335-358

  Johnson, E R ^a   McDonald, N Robb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TRAJECTORIES;

FLOW SPEEDS; KELVIN'S THEOREM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL EULER EQUATIONS; VORTICITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

VORTEX;

EID: 20444480249     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005003976     Document Type: Article

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