The interaction of counter-rotating strained vortex pairs with a third vortex

Fluid Dynamics Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Higgins, Keith ^a,c   Rütten, Markus ^b   Ooi, Andrew ^a   Chong, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURGERS VORTEX; CANCELLATION EFFECTS; COUNTER ROTATING; DOUBLE PEAK; FREE PROPAGATION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; SINGLE VORTICES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAMFUNCTION; STRETCHING EFFECT; VISCOUS DISSIPATION; VORTEX CORES; VORTEX DYNAMICS; VORTEX PAIR; VORTICITY TRANSPORT EQUATIONS;

ANGULAR VELOCITY; MERGING; ROTATION; VORTICITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 66149144805     PISSN: 01695983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0169-5983/41/3/035502     Document Type: Article

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