The long-time motion of vortex sheets with surface tension

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1933-1954

  Hou, T Y ^a   Lowengrub, J S ^b   Shelley, M J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; TWO-PHASE FLOW(LIQUID/LIQUID); VORTEX SHEETS;

EID: 0030870172     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869313     Document Type: Article

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