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Crow instability: a standalone construct

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Fluid dynamics

a long-wavelength sinuous instability of a pair of counter-rotating trailing vortices that makes them link into vortex rings.

In fluid dynamics, Crow instability refers to a long-wavelength sinuous instability of a pair of counter-rotating trailing vortices that makes them link into vortex rings. This meaning comes from Crow (1970) in AIAA Journal.[1]

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References

Crow, S. C. (1970). Stability theory for a pair of trailing vortices. AIAA Journal, 8(12), 2172-2179. https://doi.org/10.2514/3.6083

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