Dynamics of circular arrangements of vorticity in two dimensions

The merger of two like-signed vortices is a well-studied problem, but in a turbulent flow, we may often have more than two like-signed vortices interacting. We study the merger of three or more identical corotating vortices initially arranged on the vertices of a regular polygon. At low to moderate...

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Main Authors: Swaminathan, Rohith V., Ravichandran, S., Perlekar, Prasad, Govindarajan, Rama
Other Authors: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110274