Vortex Structure and Dynamics: Lectures of a Workshop Held in Rouen, France, April 27–28, 1999

Armando Babiano (auth.), Agnès Maurel, Philippe Petitjeans (eds.)3540679200, 9783540679202

A collection of the lectures presented at a workshop entitled ‘Vortex Structure and Dynamics,’ held in Rouen, France, April 27-28, 1999. The aim of the workshop was to gather researchers and experimentalists in this area to present the state of the art and collect the most recent contributions in this field.

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Table of contents :
Non-homogeneous/Non-local Two-Dimensional Dynamics….Pages 1-17
Numerical Simulation of Vortex Flows….Pages 18-39
Of Vortices and Vortical Layers: An Overview….Pages 40-123
Visualizations of Stretched Vortices….Pages 124-134
Three-Dimensional Stabilization of a Vortex Street in Viscoelastic Liquids….Pages 135-139
Bursting of a Swirling Jet Stemming from a Localized Perturbation….Pages 140-146
Computation of Equilibria Between Two Corotating Nonuniform Vortices….Pages 147-153
Experimental Observation of the Multipolar Instability Inside a Deformed Elastic Cylinder….Pages 154-161
Absolute/Convective Instabilities and Spatial Growth in a Vortex Pair….Pages 162-172
Ultrasound Scattering by Forced Laminar Wakes….Pages 173-189
A Numerical Study of the Elliptic Instability of a Vortex Pair….Pages 190-204
On the Stability of Vortices in an Ideal Gas….Pages 205-220
Three-Dimensional Instabilities of a Counterrotating Vortex Pair….Pages 221-230
Acoustic Characterization of a Stretched Vortex in an Infinite Medium….Pages 231-240
Merging and Three-dimensional Instability in a Corotating Vortex Pair….Pages 241-251
Pressure Measurements in a Stretched Vortex….Pages 252-262
Using Cavitation as a Probe of Low-Pressure Filaments in Turbulence….Pages 263-274
On the Feedback of Vorticity on Stretching….Pages 275-282
Characterisation of Vortex Flow Inside an Entrained Cavity….Pages 283-290
Structure, Dynamics and Turbulence Features of a Confined Vortex….Pages 291-298
A Criterion of Centrifugal Instabilities in Rotating Systems….Pages 299-308
Large Scale Power Fluctuations and Dynamic Properties of Isolated Vortices in a Turbulent Flow….Pages 309-315