Absolute and convective instabilities of spatially periodic flows

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1710, 1996, Pages 1027-1064

  Brevdo, Leonid ^a   Bridges, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE; INSTABILITY; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; WAVES;

EID: 0029656921     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0040     Document Type: Article

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