A study of singularity formation in a vortex sheet by the point-vortex approximation

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 167, Issue , 1986, Pages 65-93

  Krasny, Robert ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - NUMERICAL METHODS;

POINT-VORTEX APPROXIMATION; SINGULARITY FORMATION; VORTEX SHEET;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0022735928     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112086002732     Document Type: Article

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