Disturbing vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112000002159zbMath0988.76016OpenAlexW4237401619MaRDI QIDQ2706922

Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith, Neil J. Balmforth, William R. Young

Publication date: 14 July 2002

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112000002159

zbMATH Keywords

matched asymptotic expansionRankine vortexazimuthal wavenumbercat's eye patternscompact vorticesdiscrete Kelvin modesdisturbed vortexfinite-amplitude quasi-modestripolar structureweakly nonlinear externally forced quasi-modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

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