Weakly nonlinear wave motions in a thermally stratified boundary layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112096002431zbMath0874.76025OpenAlexW2140523499MaRDI QIDQ4337757

James P. Denier, Eunice W. Mureithi

Publication date: 30 June 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112096002431

zbMATH Keywords

periodic solutionsbifurcationslarge Reynolds numbersmall wavelengthsfirst harmonic/mean flow interaction theoryupper branch of neutral stability curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Waves for incompressible viscous fluids (76D33)

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Cites Work

• An Alternative Approach to Nonlinear Instabilities in Hydrodynamics
• Instabilities of Waves on a Free Surface
• A Mean Flow First Harmonic Theory for Hydrodynamic Instabilities
• On the Generation of Mean Flows by the Interaction of Görtler Vortices and Tollmien‐Schlichting Waves in Curved Channel Flows

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