Two-dimensional disturbance growth of linearly stable viscous shear flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1424-1432

  Hooper, A P ^a   Grimshaw, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0029675732     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868919     Document Type: Article

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