The effects of a simple shear layer on the growth of Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities

DOI10.1093/MNRAS/198.3.617zbMath0478.76088OpenAlexW1990260479MaRDI QIDQ3936397

T. P. Ray

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/198.3.617

zbMATH Keywords

velocity profileshomogeneousKelvin-Helmholtz instabilitieslinear shearsimple shear layerhyperbolic tangent shearvortex sheet modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Boundary-layer theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N20)

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