Bending and twisting instabilities of columnar elliptical vortices in a rotating strongly stratified fluid

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 561, Issue , 2006, Pages 73-102

  Billant, Paul ^a   Dritschel, David G ^b   Chomaz, Jean Marc ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STRAIN RATE; VORTEX FLOW; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY;

COLUMNAR ELLIPTICAL VORTICES; FROUDE NUMBER; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLUID; ROSSBY NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLUID; VORTEX-BENDING INSTABILITIES;

FLUID MECHANICS; VORTEX FLOW;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLUID MECHANICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STRAIN RATE; VORTEX FLOW; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY;

FROUDE NUMBER; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING FLUID; VORTEX FLOW; STRATIFIED FLUID;

EID: 33747040800     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006000516     Document Type: Article

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