Stability of helical tip vortices in a rotor far wake

DOI10.1017/S0022112006004228zbMath1125.76028MaRDI QIDQ3438162

Valery L. Okulov, Jens Nørkær Sørensen

Publication date: 15 May 2007

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

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilitytip vorticesaxial columnar vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07)

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