Shear sheltering and the continuous spectrum of the Orr-Sommerfeld equation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2006-2011

  Jacobs, Robert G ^a   Durbin, Paul A ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 0001639397     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869716     Document Type: Article

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