Triangular instability of a strained Batchelor vortex
This study combines theoretical analysis and numerical simulations to demonstrate that a stationary triangular strain field induces resonant instability in a Batchelor vortex, where the introduction of axial flow reduces critical layer damping to activate additional unstable mode pairs and ultimately shifts the dominant instability from a specific mode combination to one involving the first branches of both azimuthal wavenumbers.
A. S. P. Ayapilla (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Y. Hattori (Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), S. Le Dizès (Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Méditerranée, IRPHE, Marseille, France)Tue, 10 Ma🔬 physics