Exact spiral solutions of the two-dimensional Euler equations

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 117-133

  Zhang, Tong ^a   Zheng, Yuxi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axisymmetry; Compressible; Explicit solutions; Incompressible; Self similar, swirI

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031541235     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.1997.3.117     Document Type: Article

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