Numerical simulation of tripolar vortices in 2D flow
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Fluid Dynamics Research
- Vol. 9 (4) , 179-206
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-5983(92)90004-g
Abstract
The formation of a tripolar vortex in a two-dimensional flow is simulated numerically for two different cases, viz. the tripole arising from a collision of two Lamb dipoles, and the emergence of a tripole from an initially axisymmetric, unstable vortex. This latter situation was also considered in a laboratory experiment by van Heijst, Kloosterziel and Williams, and the numerical results show very good agreement with their observations, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Under certain conditions a higher wavenumber instability is found, resulting in a triangular vortex which itself turns out to be unstable. The results of the numerical simulation agree fairly well with laboratory observations of this higher-order instability scenario.Keywords
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