The onset of turbulence in finite-amplitude Kelvin–Helmholtz billows

DOI10.1017/S0022112085001690zbMATH Open0585.76047OpenAlexW2140168800MaRDI QIDQ3710199FDOQ3710199

Authors: G. P. Klaassen, W. R. Peltier 

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112085001690

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zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesecondary instabilityinitial conditionsnonlinear vortexfastest-growing modesinitial parallel flowlongitudinal symmetryoverturning of the stratified fluidstatically unstable regionsthree- dimensional infinitesimal perturbationstimescale constraintTwo-dimensional finite-amplitude Kelvin-Helmholtz waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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