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Vortices subjected to non-axisymmetric strain — unsteady asymptotic evolution

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Asymptotic Modelling in Fluid Mechanics

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Pierre-Antoine Bois Emmanuel Dériat Renée Gatignol Alain Rigolot

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Moffatt, H. (1995). Vortices subjected to non-axisymmetric strain — unsteady asymptotic evolution. In: Bois, PA., Dériat, E., Gatignol, R., Rigolot, A. (eds) Asymptotic Modelling in Fluid Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 442. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59414-0_51

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