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This chapter is devoted to the study of some discontinuities arising in real fluids. Namely, we first study the so-called vortex sheet, that is, a situation in which the fluid is irrotational outside a manifold of codimension one. In other words, the vorticity is concentrated on a curve or on a surface, in two or three dimensions, respectively, and in these manifolds the velocity field is discontinuous.
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Marchioro, C., Pulvirenti, M. (1994). Evolution of Discontinuities. In: Mathematical Theory of Incompressible Nonviscous Fluids. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 96. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4284-0_6
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