Abstract
It is shown that a broad class of two-dimensional vortices occurring in the flow of an incompressible, inviscid fluid are unstable to three-dimensional perturbations. At short wavelengths along the vortex axis the growth rate becomes independent of wavelength, and the eigenmode becomes concentrated near the center of the vortex.
- Received 30 June 1986
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.2157
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