Linear stability of viscous supersonic plane Couette flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 709-729

  Hu, Sean ^a   Zhong, Xiaolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000856223     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869596     Document Type: Article

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