Nonlinear spatial equilibration of an externally excited instability wave in a free shear layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112092001563zbMath0746.76048OpenAlexW4233008585MaRDI QIDQ4006848

Lennart S. Hultgren

Publication date: 27 September 1992

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112092001563

zbMATH Keywords

matched asymptotic expansionscritical layernonlinear effectsfinite-growth-rate instabilitynonlinear vorticity equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30)

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