A model for vortex ring formation in a starting buoyant plume
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Publication:4508021
DOI10.1017/S0022112000008727zbMath0990.76011MaRDI QIDQ4508021
Morteza Gharib, Michael Shusser
Publication date: 20 November 2000
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112000008727
time scale; pinch-off; vortex ring formation; formation time; Kelvin-Benjamin variational principle; piston-generated vortex rings; starting axisymmetric buoyant plume
76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids
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