Numerical simulation of the postformation evolution of a laminar vortex ring

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Danaila, Ionut ^a   Hélie, Jérôme ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Continental Automotive France ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

EMBEDDED BOUNDARY; INTEGRAL QUANTITY; INTEGRALS OF MOTION; LAMINAR VORTICES; OBJECTIVE METHODS; TRANSLATION VELOCITY; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 48849113139     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2949286     Document Type: Article

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