Insights into symmetric and asymmetric vortex mergers using the core growth model

DOI10.1063/1.4730344zbMath1309.76046arXiv1110.0237MaRDI QIDQ5247309

Fangxu Jing, Eva Kanso, Paul K. Newton

Publication date: 23 April 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0237

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37N10: Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

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