An Upper Bound on the Growth Rate of a Linear Instability in a Homogeneous Shear Flow

DOI10.1002/SAPM198572187zbMATH Open0588.76068OpenAlexW1628232648MaRDI QIDQ3716596FDOQ3716596

Authors: Fred J. Hickernell 

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/sapm198572187

zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq approximationlinearized equationsbeta-planehomogeneous shear flowsnecessary criteriondecreased basic-state vorticity gradientinviscid, parallel shear flowstemporally growing modesupper bound on the growth rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

Cites Work

• Note on a paper of John W. Miles
• On the stability of heterogeneous shear flows
• On the inviscid instability of the hyperbolictangent velocity profile

Cited In (5)

• On the bounds for wave stability of stratified shear flows
• Bounds on the phase velocity in the linear instability of viscous shear flow problem in the \(\beta\)-plane
• Zonal shear flows with a free surface: Hamiltonian formulation and linear and nonlinear stability
• On upper bounds for the growth rate in the extended Taylor-Goldstein problem of hydrodynamic stability
• Title not available (Why is that?)

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