On the nonlinear growth of single three‐dimensional disturbances in boundary layers

DOI10.1112/S0025579300007178zbMath0799.76018OpenAlexW2051591027MaRDI QIDQ4304930

P. A. Stewart, Rowena G. A. Bowles, Frank T. Smith

Publication date: 14 November 1994

Published in: Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/s0025579300007178

zbMATH Keywords

transitionsecondary instabilitiessideband instabilitiesnonlinear unsteady triple-deck problemsingle nonlinear oblique wavessublayer bursting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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