Abstract: | The plane linearized problem of oblique impingement of a weightless jet of an ideal incompressible fluid on the surface of a heavy fluid is considered. Flows are sought with symmetric forms of the contact region. Mathematically we arrive at the problem of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of an integral equation; solving this problem we obtain various contact forms. The fundamental result for the infinitesimally thin jet of finite intensity is derived by passing to the limit, yielding a result analagous with the forms of free vibrations of a string. Some results are presented for the problem under consideration in the nonlinear formulation.The two-dimensional problem on (vertical) impingement of a jet on a liquid was solved by Olmstead and Raynor [1]. Some results for oblique impingement of a sufficiently thin, slightly curved jet are presented by Frolov [2], Information on other studies, primarily experimental, is presented in [3].This problem is related to the model of a jet curtain of an air-cushion vehicle; in this regard we note the study of Stepanov [4] in which, in particular, a result is obtained for an infinitesimally thin jet curtain. |