Perturbation expansion and weakly nonlinear analysis for two-dimensional vortices in curved or rotating channels

DOI10.1063/1.857382zbMath0675.76023OpenAlexW2048102579MaRDI QIDQ3830682

W. H. Finlay

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.857382

zbMATH Keywords

power seriesperturbation expansionFourier modescurved channel flowSpectral simulationtwo-dimensional, streamwise- oriented vorticesWeakly nonlinear analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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