On the stability of heterogeneous shear flows

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DOI10.1017/S0022112061000305zbMath0101.43002MaRDI QIDQ5895985

J. W. Miles

Publication date: 1961

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




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