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Multiple precision, multiple processor vortex sheet roll-up computation

Conference ·
OSTI ID:54379
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  3. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)

A vortex sheet in incompressible flow is a surface across which the tangential fluid velocity has a jump discontinuity. A basic idea in fluid dynamics going back to Prandtl is that the vortex sheet can be obtained as the zero viscosity limit of a sequence of smooth solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. Thus, the investigation of vortex sheet motion may yield insight into the structure of high Reynolds number flow.

OSTI ID:
54379
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/25151--1-Vol.1; CONF-930331--Vol.1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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