The initial-value problem for the Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities of high-velocity and magnetized shear layers

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 637-662

  Choudhury, S Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressible Kelvin Helmholtz instability; Initial value problem; Time asymptotics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUCHS-FROBENIUS THEORY; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES;

PLASMA STABILITY;

INSTABILITY; SHEAR LAYERS; VORTICES;

EID: 0030430484     PISSN: 0033569X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/qam/1417229     Document Type: Article

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