Estimating limits on resolution and predictability in computations of hydrodynamically unstable flows

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(88)90088-5zbMath0633.76050MaRDI QIDQ1096489

James A. Viecelli

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(88)90088-5

zbMATH Keywords

Rayleigh-Taylor instability; Lyapunov exponent; Lagrange points; chaotic state; passive tracers; self- similarity; hydrodynamic solution method; point counting methods; Unstable hydrodynamic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76E05: Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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