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Published June 1979 | Published
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The approach of a vortex pair to a plane surface in inviscid fluid

Saffman, P. G.

Abstract

It is shown that a symmetrical vortex pair consisting of equal and opposite vortices approaching a plane wall at right angles must approach the monotonically in the absence of viscous effects. An approximate calculation is carried out for uniform vortices in which the vortices are assumed to be deformed into ellipses whose axis ratio is determined by the local rate of strain according to the results of Moore & Saffman (1971).

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© 1979 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission. (Received 18 September 1978) The work was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, Durham (DAAG 29-78-C-0011) and the Department of Energy (EY-76-S-03-0767).

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