Shear instability in spilling breakers

DOI10.1098/rspa.1994.0111zbMath0832.76008OpenAlexW1966442006MaRDI QIDQ4324298

Michael S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date: 26 February 1995

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1994.0111

zbMATH Keywords

vortex wavesPrandtl's rulearray of discrete vorticescrest instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45)

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