A sufficient condition for the instability of columnar vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112083000191zbMATH Open0519.76022MaRDI QIDQ3669034FDOQ3669034

Authors: Keith Stewartson, Sidney Leibovich 

Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

unbounded domainsunstable modesthree-dimensional perturbationsaxial velocitycolumnar vortex flowsazimuthal velocitytrailing vortexazimuthal wave numberaxial and swirl velocity componentsdistance from swirl axismost unstable wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15)

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