Centre modes in inviscid swirling flows and their application to the stability of the Batchelor vortex

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 576, Issue , 2007, Pages 325-348

  Heaton, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EULER EQUATIONS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

BATCHELOR VORTEX; CENTRE-MODE DISTURBANCE; MEAN FLOW; SWIRL PARAMETER;

SWIRLING FLOW;

EULER EQUATIONS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SWIRLING FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FLOW STABILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 34447290708     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006004447     Document Type: Article

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