On cooperative instabilities of parallel vortex pairs

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 517, Issue , 2004, Pages 331-358

  Bristol, R L ^a   Ortega, J M ^a   Marcus, P S ^a   Savas O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STRAIN; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

ELLIPTIC PERTURBATIONS; GAUSSIAN VORTICES; PERIODIC DISPLACEMENTS;

VORTEX FLOW;

INSTABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; VORTEX;

EID: 8344251027     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112004001016     Document Type: Article

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