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    {
        "id": "authors:bcgzy-ntg14",
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        "collection_id": "bcgzy-ntg14",
        "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:PROjfm98",
        "type": "article",
        "title": "Structure and stability of non-symmetric Burgers vortices",
        "author": [
            {
                "family_name": "Prochazka",
                "given_name": "Aurelius",
                "clpid": "Prochazka-A"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Pullin",
                "given_name": "D. I.",
                "orcid": "0009-0007-5991-2863",
                "clpid": "Pullin-D-I"
            }
        ],
        "abstract": "We investigate, numerically and analytically, the structure and stability of steady and quasi-steady solutions of the Navier\u2013Stokes equations corresponding to stretched vortices embedded in a uniform non-symmetric straining field, ([alpha]x, [beta]y, [gamma]z), [alpha]+[beta]+[gamma]=0, one principal axis of extensional strain of which is aligned with the vorticity. These are known as non-symmetric Burgers vortices (Robinson & Saffman 1984). We consider vortex Reynolds numbers R=[Gamma]/(2[pi]v) where [Gamma] is the vortex circulation and v the kinematic viscosity, in the range R=1[minus sign]104, and a broad range of strain ratios [lambda]=([beta][minus sign][alpha])/([beta]+[alpha]) including [lambda]>1, and in some cases [lambda][dbl greater-than sign]1. A pseudo-spectral method is used to obtain numerical solutions corresponding to steady and quasi-steady vortex states over our whole (R, [lambda]) parameter space including [lambda] where arguments proposed by Moffatt, Kida & Ohkitani (1994) demonstrate the non-existence of strictly steady solutions. When [lambda][dbl greater-than sign]1, R[dbl greater-than sign]1 and [epsilon][identical with][lambda]/R[double less-than sign]1, we find an accurate asymptotic form for the vorticity in a region 11. An iterative technique based on the power method is used to estimate the largest eigenvalues for the non-symmetric case [lambda]>0. Stability is found for 0[less-than-or-eq, slant][lambda][less-than-or-eq, slant]1, and a neutrally convective mode of instability is found and analysed for [lambda]>1. Our general conclusion is that the generalized non-symmetric Burgers vortex is unconditionally stable to two-dimensional disturbances for all R, 0[less-than-or-eq, slant][lambda][less-than-or-eq, slant]1, and that when [lambda]>1, the vortex will decay only through exponentially slow leakage of vorticity, indicating extreme robustness in this case.",
        "issn": "0022-1120",
        "publisher": "Journal of Fluid Mechanics",
        "publication": "Journal of Fluid Mechanics",
        "publication_date": "1998-05-25",
        "volume": "363",
        "pages": "199-228"
    },
    {
        "id": "authors:rf9vp-sz119",
        "collection": "authors",
        "collection_id": "rf9vp-sz119",
        "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:PROpof95",
        "type": "article",
        "title": "On the two-dimensional stability of the axisymmetric Burgers vortex",
        "author": [
            {
                "family_name": "Prochazka",
                "given_name": "A.",
                "clpid": "Prochazka-A"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Pullin",
                "given_name": "D. I.",
                "orcid": "0009-0007-5991-2863",
                "clpid": "Pullin-D-I"
            }
        ],
        "abstract": "The stability of the axisymmetric Burgers vortex solution of the Navier\u2013Stokes equations to two-dimensional perturbations is studied numerically up to Reynolds numbers, R=Gamma/2pinu, of order 104. No unstable eigenmodes for azimuthal mode numbers n=1,..., 10 are found in this range of Reynolds numbers. Increasing the Reynolds number has a stabilizing effect on the vortex.",
        "doi": "10.1063/1.868495",
        "issn": "1070-6631",
        "publisher": "Physics of Fluids",
        "publication": "Physics of Fluids",
        "publication_date": "1995-07-01",
        "series_number": "7",
        "volume": "7",
        "issue": "7",
        "pages": "1788-1790"
    }
]