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Register a new userAbsolute/convective secondary instabilities and the role of confinement in free shear layers
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Crist\\'obal Arratia
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2017
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Physics
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Mixing layers can grow in time or space by vortex pairings that succeed each other in a nearly self-similar way. We use a point vortex model to study how confinement eventually limits this growth process, leading us to propose a wavelength selection mechanism for free shear layers with counterflow.
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