The two- and three-dimensional instabilities of a spatially periodic shear layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112082000044zbMATH Open0479.76056OpenAlexW2131621473WikidataQ56863779 ScholiaQ56863779MaRDI QIDQ3938720FDOQ3938720

Authors: Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Sheila E. Widnall 

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082000044

zbMATH Keywords

spectral methodssubharmonictwo- and three-dimensionalstreamwise vorticityhelical pairingcoherent ridges of upwellingcoherent shear layer vorticesnon-separable eigenvalue problempairing or localized pairing of vortex tubesstreak transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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