Stability theory of an elliptical vortex

DOI10.1063/1.858466zbMath0763.76035OpenAlexW2040053072MaRDI QIDQ4030823

Isaac Goldhirsch, Nathan Sela

Publication date: 1 April 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858466

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic methodssymmetriessmall eccentricitylinear stability analysisHill equationlarge eccentricityelliptical streamlinesspectral degeneracy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Related Items (4)

Geometric stability of stationary Euler flows ⋮ Three-dimensional instability of Kirchhoff’s elliptic vortex ⋮ On the spectrum of hyperbolic flows ⋮ Exact description of the spectrum of elliptical vortices in hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics

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• On the three-dimensional instability of strained vortices
• Secondary instability of a temporally growing mixing layer
• Transition to turbulence in plane Poiseuille and plane Couette flow
• The two- and three-dimensional instabilities of a spatially periodic shear layer

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