Instability of vortex pair leapfrogging
Instability of vortex pair leapfrogging
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涡对越级不稳定
DOI:
10.1063/1.4774333
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
H. Aref
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作者:
L. Tophøj;H. Aref
Leapfrogging is a periodic solution of the four-vortex problem with two positive and two negative point vortices all of the same absolute circulation arranged as co-axial vortex pairs. The set of co-axial motions can be parameterized by the ratio 0 σ2, where σ=2−1 is the silver ratio. The motion is known in full analytical detail since the 1877 thesis of Grobli and a well known 1894 paper by Love. Acheson [“Instability of vortex leapfrogging,” Eur. J. Phys. 21, 269–273 (2000)]10.1088/0143-0807/21/3/310 determined by numerical experiments that leapfrogging is linearly unstable for σ2 < α < 0.382, but apparently stable for larger α. Here we derive a linear system of equations governing small perturbations of the leapfrogging motion. We show that symmetry-breaking perturbations are essentially governed by a 2D linear system with time-periodic coefficients and perform a Floquet analysis. We find transi...