Rayleigh-Taylor instability and the use of conformal maps for ideal fluid flow

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(83)90080-3zbMath0563.76024OpenAlexW1963861983MaRDI QIDQ1057721

Ralph Menikoff, Charles Zemach

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(83)90080-3

zbMATH Keywords

potential theoryconformal mappingideal fluidplane geometryRayleigh-Taylor instabilitiesAtwood ratiomotion of the fluid interface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99)

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