Waves generated by shear layer instabilities

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1991.0057zbMath0737.76024OpenAlexW2152511138MaRDI QIDQ3976868

L. C. Morland, Philip G. Saffman, Henry C. Yuen

Publication date: 25 June 1992

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1991.0057

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilitysurface tensionconstant vorticitygeneration of water wavesparallel, ideal fluid flowpiecewise-linera velocity profilesemi- infinite stagnant region

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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