A stability analysis suggests that inviscid incompressible flow, independent from angle of attack and regardless whether attached or separated, over slender cones is only marginally stable in regions of decelerating circumferential flow. Reducing slenderness or surface curvature lowers the frequency spectrum of the harmonic perturbations and, thus, reduces their impact on the overall stability of flows over slender cones. Associating the notion of instabilities in such flows with the onset of vortex asymmetries provides a model for explaining a variety of flow phenomena in Navier-Stokes simulations of laminar incompressible flows over three right circular cones at moderate to high angles of attack.


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    Title :

    Symmetry breaking in vortical flows over cones -- theory and numerical experiments


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    1994-05-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English