Stability of a vortex street of finite vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112082001578zbMath0514.76017MaRDI QIDQ3661120

Philip G. Saffman, James C. Schatzman

Publication date: 1982

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

zbMATH Keywords

steady solutions; two-dimensional disturbances; finite range of spacing ratio; finite-area Kármán vortex street; standard normal-mode analysis; vortex size approaches zero

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76E05: Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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• Behavior of Hamiltonian systems close to integrable
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