Publication:2708428

Publication date: 19 June 2003

absolute instability; convective instability; open shear flows; global modes; nonlinear instability; parallel flows; extended wavepackets; flow oscillators; local nonlinear dispersion relation; noise amplifiers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E15: Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76E05: Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability

76-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics

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