The structure of organized vortices in a free shear layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112081002656zbMath0451.76036OpenAlexW2117214952WikidataQ60369977 ScholiaQ60369977MaRDI QIDQ3898212

Sheila E. Widnall, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081002656

zbMATH Keywords

vortex structurefree shear layertwo dimensional Euler equationstearing mechanism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99)

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