Viscous destabilization of stratified shear flow forRi>1/4

DOI10.1080/03091928808208858zbMath0662.76132OpenAlexW2065519409MaRDI QIDQ3813539

Robert L. Miller, Richard S. Lindzen

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928808208858

zbMATH Keywords

boundary layersstratified shear flowviscous destabilizationindex of refractionplane-parallel flowwave over-reflection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Wakes and jets (76D25)

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