On the Kelvin–Helmholtz route to turbulence

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.383zbMath1275.76124OpenAlexW2134119993MaRDI QIDQ2863306

S. A. Thorpe

Publication date: 21 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.383

zbMATH Keywords

turbulent mixingtransition to turbulencestratified flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transition to turbulence (76F06)

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• The ‘zoo’ of secondary instabilities precursory to stratified shear flow transition. Part 2 The influence of stratification
• Instability and hydraulics of turbulent stratified shear flows
• The onset of turbulence in finite-amplitude Kelvin–Helmholtz billows
• Vorticity concentration and the dynamics of unstable free shear layers
• A numerical simulation of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves of finite amplitude
• Numerical studies of the stability of inviscid stratified shear flows

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