Thermal instability of two-dimensional stagnation-point boundary layers

DOI10.1017/S0022112083001469zbMath0529.76039MaRDI QIDQ3311874

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Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionthermal instabilitycritical Rayleigh numberPrandtl numberscritical wavenumberthermal boundary-layer lengthscaletwo-dimensional stagnation flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Wakes and jets (76D25)

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Cites Work

• Wave instability of mixed convection flow over a horizontal flat plate

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