Evolution and merger of isolated vortex structures
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 25 (8), 1297-1305
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863907
Abstract
Numerical simulations of the instability, merger, and breaking of two piecewise‐constant finite‐area vortex regions (FAVR’s) are presented. An improved contour dynamical algorithm with node insertion‐and‐removal to maintain the a priori accuracy is used. Corotating ’’V states’’ (symmetric steady‐state FAVR’s) were found to be unstable when properly perturbed if their centroid‐effective radius ratio, x̄/R, is R ratios, regular perimeter oscillations were observed and estimates of an eigenfrequency of the perturbed stable V states were obtained. When regions of different vorticity density merge, the larger‐density region is eventually entrained within the smaller‐density region. These simulations elucidate the self‐consistent close interactions of isolated vortex regions in two‐dimensional high Reynolds number flows.Keywords
This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTOUR DYNAMICS FOR THE EULER EQUATIONS?Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1981
- Convergence of Vortex Methods for Euler’s Equations. IISIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 1979
- Contour dynamics for the Euler equations in two dimensionsJournal of Computational Physics, 1979
- Vortex Waves: Stationary "States," Interactions, Recurrence, and BreakingPhysical Review Letters, 1978
- Structure of Turbulent Shear Flows: A New LookAIAA Journal, 1976
- Vortex pairing : the mechanism of turbulent mixing-layer growth at moderate Reynolds numberJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 1974
- Instability, coalescence and fission of finite-area vortex structuresJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 1973
- Numerical study of slightly viscous flowJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 1973
- On transition in a separated laminar boundary layerJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 1966
- Experimental Investigation of the Wakes behind Cylinders and Plates at Low Reynolds NumbersJournal of the Physics Society Japan, 1956