Blocking an inviscid shear flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112091000198MaRDI QIDQ5753659zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Melvin E. Stern

Publication date 1991

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112091000198

zbMATH Keywords

boundary-layer thicknessinviscid two-dimensional shear flowsemicircular `cape'uniform vorticity model of a boundary-layer current

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

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Cites work

• Dynamics of vorticity fronts
• Large-amplitude long waves in a shear flow
• Stokes flow in arbitrary two-dimensional domains: shear flow over ridges and cavities
• The hydraulics of rotating-channel flow
• The repeated filamentation of two-dimensional vorticity interfaces

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