A transition from Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities to propagating wave instabilities

DOI10.1063/1.858368zbMath0763.76021MaRDI QIDQ4030806

Hennie Kelder, Hector Teitelbaum, François Lott

Publication date: 1 April 1993

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858368

zbMATH Keywords

linear stability; hypergeometric equation; neutral modes; Taylor-Goldstein equation; inviscid, Boussinesq fluid; unbounded stably stratified shear layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76E17: Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

76E99: Hydrodynamic stability

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