Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Table of Contents - Volume 173 - 1986  


Experimental and numerical study of vortex couples in two-dimensional flows

Y.  Couder a1 and C.  Basdevant a2
a1 Groupe de Physique des Solides, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
a2 Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24, rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

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Abstract

Two-dimensional turbulence is investigated experimentally in thin liquid films. This study shows the spontaneous formation of couples of opposite-sign vortices in von Kármán wakes. The structure of these couples, their behaviour and their role in turbulent flows is then studied using both a numerical simulation and laboratory results.

(Published Online April 21 2006)
(Received March 26 1986)


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