Linear instability of curved free shear layers

DOI10.1063/1.868350zbMath0827.76021OpenAlexW2054710592MaRDI QIDQ4837453

William W. Liou

Publication date: 13 December 1995

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19940010256

zbMATH Keywords

shooting techniquemixing layerscurvature effectsdisturbance equationstreamwise vortex pairscurvature Richardson numbersinviscid hydrodynamic stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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