The role of transverse secondary instabilities in the evolution of free shear layers

DOI10.1017/S0022112089001229zbMath0666.76063OpenAlexW2060309976MaRDI QIDQ3817825

W. R. Peltier, G. P. Klaassen

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112089001229

zbMATH Keywords

Stuart vorticesnonlinear flow simulationscontinuous spectrum of vortex merging instabilitiesLinear stability analysesmoderately stratified, high-Reynolds-number shear layersNonlinear simulations of vortex mergingstratified Kelvin-Helmholtz flowtransverse secondary instabilities of two-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz billows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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