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Generalized vortex methods for free-surface flow problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Gregory R. Baker
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 Present address: Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Daniel I. Meiron
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Steven A. Orszag
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139

Abstract

The motion of free surfaces in incompressible, irrotational, inviscid layered flows is studied by evolution equations for the position of the free surfaces and appropriate dipole (vortex) and source strengths. The resulting Fredholm integral equations of the second kind may be solved efficiently in both storage and work by iteration in both two and three dimensions. Applications to breaking water waves over finite-bottom topography and interacting triads of surface and interfacial waves are given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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