Transition to turbulence in an elliptic vortex

DOI10.1017/S0022112096000031zbMath0860.76040MaRDI QIDQ4714297

N. N. Mansour, T. S. Lundgren

Publication date: 5 May 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityspectral methodsKolmogorov lawrectangular planformsecondary instabilitiescounter-rotating swirlsthree-dimensional shell-averaged energy spectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

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