Onset of secondary instabilities on the zigzag instability in stratified fluids

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 682, Issue , 2011, Pages 120-131

  Augier, Pierre ^a   Billant, Paul ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

stratified flows; transition to turbulence; vortex instability

Indexed keywords

FROUDE NUMBER; NUMERICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; SECONDARY INSTABILITY; STRATIFIED FLOWS; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE; UNIVERSAL THRESHOLD; VORTEX INSTABILITY; ZIGZAG INSTABILITY;

STABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FROUDE NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW; STRATIFIED FLUID; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 80052142379     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.231     Document Type: Article

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