On the stability of heterogeneous shear flows
- 1 May 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 10 (04), 496-508
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112061000305
Abstract
Small perturbations of a parallel shear flow U(y) in an inviscid, incompressible fluid of variable density ρ0(y) are considered. It is deduced that dynamic instability of statically stable flows ( is the wave speed.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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