Rigorous bounds on the nonlinear saturation of instabilities to parallel shear flows

DOI10.1017/S002211208800271XzbMath0656.76043MaRDI QIDQ3804353

Theodore G. Shepherd

Publication date: 1988

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

zbMATH Keywords

beta- planeevolution of unstable flowsexistence of finite-amplitude Lyapunov (normed) stability theoremsfinite-amplitude growthinstabilities to parallel shear flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• Nonlinear stability of fluid and plasma equilibria
• On the non-linear mechanics of wave disturbances in stable and unstable parallel flows Part 1. The basic behaviour in plane Poiseuille flow
• On the non-linear mechanics of wave disturbances in stable and unstable parallel flows Part 2. The development of a solution for plane Poiseuille flow and for plane Couette flow
• Bounds on Flow Quantities
• Statistical dynamics of two-dimensional flow
• Statistical features of the evolution of two-dimensional turbulence

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