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A note on the instability of columnar vortices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Knut S. Eckhoff
Knut S. Eckhoff
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Allégt. 55, 5000 Bergen, Norway
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Abstract

The inviscid compressible instability of columnar-vortex flows to three-dimensional perturbations with large wavenumbers is considered. The sufficient conditions for instability obtained are compared with recently published results for incompressible fluids.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 145 , August 1984 , pp. 417 - 421
Copyright
© 1984 Cambridge University Press

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