The stability of a two-dimensional vorticity filament under uniform strain

DOI10.1017/S0022112091000915zbMath0728.76045OpenAlexW2012747308WikidataQ59647548 ScholiaQ59647548MaRDI QIDQ3352718

M. N. Juckes, Theodore G. Shepherd, Peter H. Haynes, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112091000915

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityconstant vorticityuniform strainbackground rotationRayleigh shear instability mechanismsimple shear layertime-dependent basic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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