On the mechanism of shear flow instabilities

DOI10.1017/S0022112094002582zbMath0889.76019OpenAlexW2124608532MaRDI QIDQ5689313

Humio Mitsudera, Peter G. Baines

Publication date: 25 May 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112094002582

zbMATH Keywords

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilityHolmboe wavessymmetric profileskinematic advective processwave-interaction mechanism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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