Three-dimensional destabilization of Stuart vortices: the influence of rotation and ellipticity

DOI10.1017/S0022112099004620zbMath0946.76024OpenAlexW1996321098MaRDI QIDQ4267460

P. G. Potylitsin, W. R. Peltier

Publication date: 17 October 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099004620

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilityEuler equationsellipticitythree-dimensional perturbationselliptical instabilitycolumnar vortexanticyclonic vortex columncyclonic columnshyperbolic modeStuart steady-state solutionthree-dimensional inertial mode

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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