Collective behaviour of large number of vortices in the plane

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 469, Issue 2156, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Yuxin ^a   Kolokolnikov, Theodore ^a   Zhirov, Daniel ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamical systems; Swarming; Vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS;

AGGREGATION MODEL; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; INITIAL CONDITIONS; RELATIVE EQUILIBRIA; STRUCTURE OF VORTICES; SWARMING; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84880223127     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2013.0085     Document Type: Article

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