On the evolution and saturation of instabilities of two-dimensional isolated circular vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112099004760zbMath0947.76032OpenAlexW2055959332MaRDI QIDQ4933835

R. C. Kloosterziel, George F. Carnevale

Publication date: 29 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099004760

zbMATH Keywords

Galerkin methoddynamical systemvorticity equationwave-wave interactionsinstability of isolated circular vorticeslow-order truncationssaturation of instabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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