Stratocumulus cloud or less defined layer of clouds. Stratocumulus castellanus may develop into cumulus congestus (and even further into cumulonimbus) under auspicious conditions. Any showers from stratocumulus castellanus are not usually as heavy as those from cumulus congestus. Stratocumulus Opacus is a dark layer of clouds covering entire sky without any break. However, the cloud sheet is not completely uniform, so that separate cloud bases still can be seen. This is the main precipitating type, however any rain is usually light. If the cloud layer becomes grayer to the point when individual clouds can’t be distinguished, stratocumulus turn into stratus clouds. Stratocumulus
Vortex sheet of a vortex sheet by vortex panels with arc wise diffusion of circulation density also shows that the sheet rolls-up into a double branched spiral. In many engineering and physical applications the growth of a temporal free shear layer is of interest. The thickness of a free shear layer is usually measured by momentum thickness, which is defined as formula_28 where formula_29 and formula_30 is the freestream velocity. Momentum thickness has the dimension of length and the non-dimensional momentum thickness is given by formula_31. Momentum thickness can be used to measure the thickness of a vortex layer. Vortex sheet A