The spiral wind-up and dissipation of vorticity and a passive scalar in a strained planar vortex

DOI10.1017/S0022112099006278zbMath0965.76018OpenAlexW2159559194WikidataQ57946953 ScholiaQ57946953MaRDI QIDQ4951822

Andrew D. Gilbert, Andrew P. Bassom

Publication date: 29 July 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099006278

zbMATH Keywords

vortex decayGaussian vortexrebound phenomenonenstrophy transfercontinuous random strainimpulsive strainKida's elliptical vortex modelLundgren's asymptotic formulationon-off step functionpassive scalar modelspiral wind-up of vorticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

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