Formal stability of circular vortices

DOI10.1017/S0022112092002362zbMath0755.76045OpenAlexW2132682578MaRDI QIDQ4020296

George F. Carnevale, R. C. Kloosterziel

Publication date: 16 January 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112092002362

zbMATH Keywords

second variationLagrangian displacementsisolated vortexArnol'd's Eulerian formalismlinear combination of energy and angular momentum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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