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physics and astronomy

Stability of two-dimensional vorticity filaments

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, Volume 333, No. 1-2, Year 2004

We discuss the results of a numerical study on the stability of two-dimensional vorticity filaments around a circular vortex. We illustrate how the stability of the filaments depends on the balance between the strain associated with the far field of the vortex and the local vorticity of the filament, and we discuss an empirical criterion for filament stability. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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