Taylor—Gortler vortices in fully developed or boundary-layer flows: linear theory

DOI10.1017/S0022112082002596zbMath0503.76054OpenAlexW2101477941MaRDI QIDQ3970037

Philip Hall

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082002596

zbMATH Keywords

disturbancescentrifugal instabilitiesboundary-layer growthconcave surfacesdeveloping flowsflows between concentric cylindersgrowth of Görtler vorticeshigh Taylor and Görtler numbersinternal viscous or critical layersparallel-flow approximationshort- wavelength asymptotic structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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