Experimental observations of the merger of co-rotating wake vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112007006891zbMath1118.76004OpenAlexW2142383886MaRDI QIDQ5308054

W. R. Graham, T. Bertényi

Publication date: 26 September 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112007006891

zbMATH Keywords

vortex separationshort-wavelength instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

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