Secondary instabilities of interfacial waves due to coupling with a long wave mode in a two-layer Couette flow

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 311-324

  Charru, François ^a   Barthelet, Pierre ^a  

^a IMFT   (France)

Author keywords

Eckhaus instability; Hydrodynamic instability; Interfacial waves; Mode coupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001380779     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00260-7     Document Type: Article

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