Nonlinear vorticity-banding instability in granular plane Couette flow: higher-order Landau coefficients, bistability and the bifurcation scenario

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.601zbMath1284.76172MaRDI QIDQ5406581

Meheboob Alam, Priyanka Shukla

Publication date: 1 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.601

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcation; complex fluids; nonlinear instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76E05: Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability

76T25: Granular flows

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