THE INSTABILITY OF FLOW IN THE NARROW GAP BETWEEN TWO PROLATE SPHEROIDS. PART I. SMALL AXIS RATIO

DOI10.1093/QJMAM/34.1.57zbMath0455.76018OpenAlexW4232227368MaRDI QIDQ3904222

L. M. Hocking, Jan Skiepko

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/34.1.57

zbMATH Keywords

Couette flowlinear instabilityweakly nonlinearTaylor vorticesgap between two prolate spheroidssmall axis ratio

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30)

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