A conformal-mapping model for bubbles and fingers of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 113-121

  Yoshikawa, T ^a   Balk, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal mapping; Free surface dynamics; Rayleigh Taylor instability; Richtmyer Meshkov instability; Variational principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141746355     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7177(03)90009-4     Document Type: Article

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