Shear instability in spilling breakers

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1994.0111MaRDI QIDQ4324298zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date 26 February 1995

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1994.0111

zbMATH Keywords

array of discrete vorticescrest instabilityPrandtl's rulevortex waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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