Singularity formation during Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 252, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 51-78

  Baker, Gregory ^a   Caflisch, Russel E ^b   Siegel, Michael ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTABILITY; INTERFACES-FLUID; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR; SINGULARITY FORMATION;

EID: 0027534286     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112093003660     Document Type: Article

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