Görtler vortices in the Rayleigh layer on an impulsively started cylinder

DOI10.1063/1.1495869zbMath1185.76236OpenAlexW2074663570MaRDI QIDQ3556113

P. J. Blennerhassett, Sharon O. MacKerrell, Andrew P. Bassom

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a65b0a2b96ad2ff4eb6288999ff7c6cc2eda8b89

zbMATH Keywords

vorticesflow instabilityexternal flowsWKB calculations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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