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

by Agnes Maurel (editor)

Non-homogeneous/Non-local Two-Dimensional Dynamics.- Numerical Simulation of Vortex Flows.- Of Vortices and Vortical An Overview.- Visualizations of Stretched Vortices.- Three-Dimensional Stabilization of a Vortex Street in Viscoelastic Liquids.- Bursting of a Swirling Jet Stemming from a Localized Perturbation.- Computation of Equilibria Between Two Corotating Nonuniform Vortices.- Experimental Observation of the Multipolar Instability Inside a Deformed Elastic Cylinder.- Absolute/Convective Instabilities and Spatial Growth in a Vortex Pair.- Ultrasound Scattering by Forced Laminar Wakes.- A Numerical Study of the Elliptic Instability of a Vortex Pair.- On the Stability of Vortices in an Ideal Gas.- Three-Dimensional Instabilities of a Counterrotating Vortex Pair.- Acoustic Characterization of a Stretched Vortex in an Infinite Medium.- Merging and Three-dimensional Instability in a Corotating Vortex Pair.- Pressure Measurements in a Stretched Vortex.- Using Cavitation as a Probe of Low-Pressure Filaments in Turbulence.- On the Feedback of Vorticity on Stretching.- Characterisation of Vortex Flow Inside an Entrained Cavity.- Structure, Dynamics and Turbulence Features of a Confined Vortex.- A Criterion of Centrifugal Instabilities in Rotating Systems.- Large Scale Power Fluctuations and Dynamic Properties of Isolated Vortices in a Turbulent Flow.

340 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000