Experiments on long-wavelength instability and reconnection of a vortex pair

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Leweke, Thomas ^a   Williamson, Charles H K ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REYNOLDS NUMBER; STABILITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER TANKS;

CIRCUMFERENTIAL VELOCITY; COUNTER-ROTATING VORTEX PAIR; ELLIPTICAL VORTEX; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MAJOR AXIS LENGTHS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PERTURBATION WAVELENGTH;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79952094307     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3531720     Document Type: Article

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