Nonlinear stability of a stratified shear flow in the regime with an unsteady critical layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112088002952zbMath0649.76062OpenAlexW2036504121MaRDI QIDQ3795425

I. G. Shukhman, S. M. Churilov

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112088002952

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear development of disturbancesweakly supercritical, stratified shear flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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Cites Work

• The stability of a shear layer in an unbounded heterogeneous inviscid fluid
• Time-dependent critical layers in shear flows on the beta-plane

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