Dynamics of vorticity fronts

DOI10.1017/S0022112085003032zbMath0585.76028MaRDI QIDQ3710183

Lawrence J. Pratt, Melvin E. Stern

Publication date: 1985

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

zbMATH Keywords

wave breakingleading edgeinitial statesmethod of contour dynamicsfrontal slopelee-wave generationpiecewise uniform-vorticity layersrelative amplitude of the intrusionsimple shock-joining theoryVorticity fronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47)

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• Large-amplitude long waves in a shear flow
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• Internal wave solitons
• Internal waves of permanent form in fluids of great depth