Nonlinear stability of a stratified shear flow: a viscous critical layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112087001708zbMath0635.76042OpenAlexW2129418268MaRDI QIDQ3775188

I. G. Shukhman, S. M. Churilov

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112087001708

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear stabilitynonlinear evolution equationviscous critical-layer regimeweakly supercritical shear flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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