Oblique-mode breakdown and secondary instability in supersonic boundary layers

DOI10.1017/S0022112094001965zbMath0814.76040MaRDI QIDQ4319580

Chau-Lyan Chang, Mujeeb R. Malik

Publication date: 16 February 1995

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

zbMATH Keywords

laminar-turbulent transition; streamwise vortex; flat-plate boundary layer; low supersonic Mach numbers; wave-vortex triad

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E05: Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability

76J20: Supersonic flows

76N20: Boundary-layer theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics

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