Viscous destabilization of stratified shear flow forRi>1/4

DOI10.1080/03091928808208858zbMath0662.76132MaRDI 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 layers; stratified shear flow; viscous destabilization; index of refraction; plane-parallel flow; wave over-reflection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76D10: Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

76E05: Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability

76D25: Wakes and jets

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