Global regularity and convergence of a Birkhoff-Rott-α approximation of the dynamics of vortex sheets of the two-dimensional Euler equations

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 697-746

  Bardos, Claude ^a   Linshiz, Jasmine S ^b   Titi, Edriss S ^b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c University of California Irvine   (United States)

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EID: 77952502222     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20305     Document Type: Article

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