The initial evolution of a wave packet in a laminar boundary layer

DOI10.1063/1.868284zbMath0866.76028OpenAlexW2020474755MaRDI QIDQ4838738

Jacob Cohen

Publication date: 20 July 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868284

zbMATH Keywords

method of multiple scaleshigh-frequency wavesneutral pointGaster's linear modellower frequency oblique wavesnormalised cross-stream distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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• On the stability of stratified viscous plane Couette flow. Part 1. Constant buoyancy frequency
• A mechanism for bypass transition from localized disturbances in wall-bounded shear flows
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