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Remarks on a paper by Aref and Flinchem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

R. T. Pierrehumbert
R. T. Pierrehumbert
Affiliation:
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/N.O.A.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
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Abstract

It is shown that the vortex filament in background shear considered in Aref & Flinchem (1984) is unstable to infinitesimal disturbances, and that the numerical results described therein are consistent with the characteristics of the instability.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 163 , February 1986 , pp. 21 - 26
Copyright
© 1986 Cambridge University Press

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