A new mechanism of small-scale transition in a plane mixing layer: core dynamics of spanwise vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112095003223zbMath0856.76023MaRDI QIDQ4881448

Fazle Hussain, Ralph W. Metcalfe, W. Schoppa

Publication date: 23 February 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicscore dynamics instabilitytemporal direct numerical simulationsvortex line topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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