The development of wavepackets in unstable flows

DOI10.1098/rspa.1981.0004zbMath0454.76016OpenAlexW2074019745MaRDI QIDQ3902696

Alex D. D. Craik

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1981.0004

zbMATH Keywords

saddle point methodcomplex dispersion relationmultiple-scales techniquelocalized three-dimensionalwavepackets in unstable flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10)

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