Three-dimensional instabilities in tornado-like vortices with secondary circulations

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.369zbMath1275.76107OpenAlexW2170454081MaRDI QIDQ2863432

David S. Nolan

Publication date: 21 November 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/ee97a32e5d112e0f558fbc7f404ed9b293ffbf78

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicsvortex instabilityvortex breakdown

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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