The evolution of Kirchhoff elliptic vortices

DOI10.1063/1.2912991zbMath1182.76523OpenAlexW2078241924MaRDI QIDQ5303942

Travis Mitchell, Louis F. Rossi

Publication date: 18 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9a3acbcfdadeb08f16e9e5be899190e688680a8f

zbMATH Keywords

vorticeseigenvalues and eigenfunctionsflow simulationflow instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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Uses Software

• MATLAB ODE suite

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