The ‘zoo’ of secondary instabilities precursory to stratified shear flow transition. Part 1 Shear aligned convection, pairing, and braid instabilities

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.304zbMath1275.76102MaRDI QIDQ2863308

W. R. Peltier, Unnamed Author

Publication date: 21 November 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.304

zbMATH Keywords

transition to turbulence; shear layer turbulence; stratified turbulencence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76E17: Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability

76F06: Transition to turbulence

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