The `zoo' of secondary instabilities precursory to stratified shear flow transition. I: Shear aligned convection, pairing, and braid instabilities

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.304zbMATH Open1275.76102OpenAlexW1981037048MaRDI QIDQ2863308FDOQ2863308

Authors: W. R. Peltier, A. Mashayek 

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

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zbMATH Keywords

transition to turbulenceshear layer turbulencestratified turbulencence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Transition to turbulence (76F06) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

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