The spiral wind-up and dissipation of vorticity and a passive scalar in a strained planar vortex

DOI10.1017/S0022112099006278MaRDI QIDQ4951822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Andrew P. Bassom, Andrew D. Gilbert

Publication date 29 July 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099006278

zbMATH Keywords

continuous random strainenstrophy transferGaussian vorteximpulsive strainKida's elliptical vortex modelLundgren's asymptotic formulationon-off step functionpassive scalar modelrebound phenomenonspiral wind-up of vorticityvortex decay

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscous vortex flows (76D17) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35)

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