Structure and stability of the compressible Stuart vortex

The structure and two- and three-dimensional stability properties of a linear array of compressible Stuart vortices (CSV; Stuart 1967; Meiron et al. 2000) are investigated both analytically and numerically. The CSV is a family of steady, homentropic, two-dimensional solutions to the compressible Euler equations, parameterized by the free-stream Mach number M_(infty), and the mass flux (epsilon) inside a single vortex core. Known solutions have 0