Nonlinear Theories for Shear Flow Instabilities: Physical Insights and Practical Implications

DOI10.1146/ANNUREV-FLUID-122316-045252zbMath1412.76033OpenAlexW2892414059WikidataQ129183968 ScholiaQ129183968MaRDI QIDQ5377514

Xuesong Wu

Publication date: 24 May 2019

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-122316-045252

zbMATH Keywords

instabilitynonlinearityboundary layercritical layertransitionmodal interactionnonequilibrium effectfree shear layercatalytic effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02)

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