Acoustic solitary vortices
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 30 (10), 3297-3299
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866458
Abstract
Low‐frequency, short‐wavelength acoustic‐gravity waves are considered. It is shown that solitary vortices can exist if the equilibrium temperature gradient is sufficiently large.Keywords
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