Vortex tube reconnection at Re = 104

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  van Rees, Wim M ^a   Hussain, Fazle ^b   Koumoutsakos, Petros ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECTROSCOPY;

ELLIPTICAL VORTEX; LONG-TIME DYNAMICS; PERIODIC DOMAINS; PRIMARY VORTEX; VORTEX DYNAMICS; VORTEX METHODS; VORTEX RECONNECTION; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84864758126     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4731809     Document Type: Article

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