Amplitude propagation in slowly varying trains of shear-flow instability waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112086000794zbMath0622.76048MaRDI QIDQ3760164

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Publication date: 1986

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

zbMATH Keywords

evolution equationsVariational principlesalgebraic focusingconservation of wave action densityfar-field caustics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Related Items (1)

Amplitude equations for wave packets in slightly inhomogeneous unstable flows

Cites Work

• The application of kinematic wave theory to wave trains and packets with small dissipation
• The three-dimensional nature of boundary-layer instability
• Wave mechanics of breakdown

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