On the weakly nonlinear development of Tollmien-Schlichting wavetrains in boundary layers

DOI10.1017/S0022112096000870zbMath0888.76030OpenAlexW2061012706MaRDI QIDQ4354057

P. A. Stewart, Stephen J. Cowley, Xuesong Wu

Publication date: 4 June 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112096000870

zbMATH Keywords

critical layerintegro-partial-differential equationdiffusion layeramplitude evolutionhigh-frequency lower branchhigh-Reynolds-number asymptotic methodslocalized singularityupper branch

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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Cites Work

• On the non-parallel flow stability of the Blasius boundary layer
• Critical Layers m Parallel Flows

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