 Burgers vortex sheet

A planar strained shear layer is a Burgers vortex sheet. For strain $u_x=-\alpha x$, $u_z=\alpha z$ and transverse velocity $u_y=U\mathrm{erf}(x/{\delta }_s)$, viscous balance gives ${\delta }_s^2=2\nu /\alpha$. At fixed velocity jump its excess viscous dissipation per sheet area scales as $U^2\sqrt{\nu \alpha }$, which vanishes as kinematic viscosity tends to zero.