The effect of buoyancy on upper-branch Tollmien-Schlichting waves

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-50

  Mureithi, Eunice W ^a   Denier, James P ^a,b   Stott, Jillian A K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAYLOR-GOLDSTEIN EQUATION;

BUOYANCY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STABILITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

EID: 0031069106     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/58.1.19     Document Type: Article

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