Linear instability of the wake behind a flat plate placed parallel to a uniform stream

DOI10.1017/S0022112089002776zbMath0681.76046OpenAlexW2043526819MaRDI QIDQ4730922

Demetrios T. Papageorgiou, Frank T. Smith

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112089002776

zbMATH Keywords

eigensolutionsgrowth of linear disturbanceshigh-Reynolds-number laminar wakedouble Blasius distributionsneutral-wave solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10)

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Cites Work

• The instability to long waves of unbounded parallel inviscid flow
• Boundary-Layer Flow Near the Trailing Edge of a Flat Plate
• The stability of an incompressible two-dimensional wake
• The mechanism of transition in the wake of a thin flat plate placed parallel to a uniform flow
• The Stability of Two-Dimensional Laminar Wakes at Low Reynolds Numbers

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