Two-dimensional inviscid pinch-off: An example of self-similarity of the second kind

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Burton, C J ^a   Taborek, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; DROPS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

INVISCID FLUID; NONLINEAR EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; PINCH-OFF;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; DROPS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 35748975171     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2800387     Document Type: Article

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