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Exact, self-similar, time-dependent free surface flows under gravity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

P. L. Sachdev
P. L. Sachdev*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012
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Abstract

A class of exact, self-similar, time-dependent solutions describing free surface flows under gravity is found which extends the self-propagating class of solutions discovered earlier by Freeman (1972) to those which decay with time.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 96 , Issue 4 , 27 February 1980 , pp. 797 - 802
Copyright
Copyright © 1980 Cambridge University Press

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