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

DOI10.1093/MNRAS/198.3.617zbMATH Open0478.76088OpenAlexW1990260479MaRDI QIDQ3936397FDOQ3936397

Authors: 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

homogeneousKelvin-Helmholtz instabilitiesvelocity profileslinear shearsimple shear layerhyperbolic tangent shearvortex sheet modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cited In (6)

• Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities in radiating flows
• An analytical study of the Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities of compressible, magnetized, anisotropic, and isotropic tangential velocity discontinuities
• The Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability
• Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities of high-velocity magnetized, anisotropic shear layers
• The linear stability of viscous compressible plane Couette flow
• Nonlinear evolution of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of supersonic tangential velocity discontinuities

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