Two-dimensional corotating vortex pairs are computed as equilibrium solutions of the Euler equations and the influence of one vortex on the other is characterized in terms of a deformation field acting on an isolated vortex region. It is shown, by computing equilibrium states for a single vortex within an equivalent strain field, that the external rotating strain accounts for the elliptic deformation of the streamlines near the center of each vortex. Critical states, as a function of the strain rate, are reached when stagnation points start to penetrate the vortex regions at the outer boundary. While critical states for a single vortex within a uniform external rotating strain field consist of elliptical corner solutions, the vortex shapes lose the elliptical symmetry in the corotating case. We show that these asymmetric equilibrium states can be captured by a single vortex model if we consider higher order terms in the deformation field. We also demonstrate that the critical strain rates are of the same order of magnitude for both the single-vortex model and the interacting vortex pair.
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July 2005
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June 27 2005
Relationship between corotating vortex-pair equilibria and a single vortex in an external deformation field
Uwe Ehrenstein;
Uwe Ehrenstein
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Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné,
Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
, Parc Valrose, F-06108 Nice Cedex 02, France
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Stéphane Le Dizès
Stéphane Le Dizès
Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre,
UMR 6594 CNRS/Universités Aix-Marseille
, 49 rue F. Joliot-Curie, Boite Postale 146, F-13384 Marseille Cedex 13, France
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: uwe.ehrenstein@unice.fr
Physics of Fluids 17, 074103 (2005)
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Received:
July 08 2004
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February 24 2005
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Uwe Ehrenstein, Stéphane Le Dizès; Relationship between corotating vortex-pair equilibria and a single vortex in an external deformation field. Physics of Fluids 1 July 2005; 17 (7): 074103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1949192
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