Dynamics of vorticity fronts

DOI10.1017/S0022112085003032MaRDI QIDQ3710183zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Melvin E. Stern, Lawrence J. Pratt

Publication date 1985

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112085003032

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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