Singularity formation in three-dimensional vortex sheets

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 147-172

  Hou, Thomas Y ^a   Hu, Gang ^a   Zhang, Pingwen ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SURFACE TENSION; VELOCITY;

VORTEX SHEETS;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTEX SHEET;

EID: 0037280174     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1526100     Document Type: Article

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