Development of the trailing shear layer in a starting jet during pinch-off

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.138zbMath1248.76003MaRDI QIDQ2907130

S. C. M. Yu, Lei Gao

Publication date: 7 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18699

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamics; shear layers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-05: Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics

76E05: Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability

76D17: Viscous vortex flows

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