Instability and transient growth for two trailing-vortex pairs

The stability of two vortex pairs is analysed as a model for the vortex system generated by an aircraft in flaps-down configuration. The co-rotating vortices on the starboard and port sides tumble about one another as they propagate downward. This results in a time-periodic basic state for the stability analysis. The dynamics and instability of the trailing vortices are modelled using thin vortex filaments. Stability equations are derived by matching the induced velocities from Biot-Savart integrals with kinematic equations obtained by temporal differentiation of the vortex position vectors. The stability equations are solved analytically as an eigenvalue problem, using Floquet theory, and numerically as an initial value problem. The instabilities are periodic along the axes of the vortices with wavelengths that are large compared to the size of the vortex cores

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