The onset of turbulence in finite-amplitude Kelvin–Helmholtz billows
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Publication:3710199
DOI10.1017/S0022112085001690zbMath0585.76047OpenAlexW2140168800MaRDI QIDQ3710199
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
eigenvalueinitial conditionssecondary instabilitynonlinear vortexfastest-growing modesinitial parallel flowlongitudinal symmetryoverturning of the stratified fluidstatically unstable regionsthree- dimensional infinitesimal perturbationstimescale constraintTwo-dimensional finite-amplitude Kelvin-Helmholtz waves
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