A merging criterion for two-dimensional co-rotating vortices

DOI10.1063/1.1489683zbMath1185.76255OpenAlexW2081214417MaRDI QIDQ3556083

Patrice Meunier, Thomas Leweke, Uwe Ehrenstein, Maurice Rossi

Publication date: 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1489683

zbMATH Keywords

vorticesflow instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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