Stability of relative equilibria of three vortices

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Aref, Hassan ^a,b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; STABILITY;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; RELATIVE EQUILIBRIA; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY AND INSTABILITY; STABILITY PROBLEM; VORTEX CIRCULATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 71049182639     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3216063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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