The evolution of Kirchhoff elliptic vortices

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Mithchell, T B ^a   Rossi, L F ^b  

^a University of Delaware ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VORTICITY;

KIRCHHOFF ELLIPTIC VORTEX; LINEAR ANALYTIC THEORY;

VORTEX FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 44649090748     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2912991     Document Type: Article

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