A nonlinear approximation for vortex sheet evolution and singularity formation

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(90)90122-6zbMath0692.76017MaRDI QIDQ583986

Stephen Semmes, Russel E. Caflisch

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(90)90122-6

zbMATH Keywords

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability; singularity formation; evolution of a vortex sheet; integro-differential equation of Birkhoff-Rott; two- dimensional, incompressible, inviscid flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

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