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Asymptotic estimates for symmetric vortex streets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

G. Keady
G. Keady
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009.
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Steady plane inviscid symmetric vortex streets are flows defined in the strip R × (0, b) and periodic in x with period 2a in which the flow in (−a, a) × (0, b) is irrotational outside a vortex core on which the vorticity takes a prescribed constant value. A family of such vortex street flows, characterised by a variational principle in which the area |Aα| and the centroid yc of the vortex core Aα are fixed, will be considered. For such a family, indexed by a parameter α, suppose that the cores Aα become small in the sense that

Asymptotic estimates on functionals such as flux constant and speed are obtained.

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Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , April 1985 , pp. 487 - 502
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1985

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