The stability of elliptical vortices in an external straining flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112090001276zbMath0686.76028MaRDI QIDQ4205191

David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

breakingincompressibletwo-dimensional fluidinviscidwave amplificationdirect, high resolution, nonlinear numerical integrationsKida solutionslinear Floquet theorysmall boundary disturbancesstability of periodic elliptical motionsteepening

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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