Local and global instabilities of spatially developing flows: Cautionary examples

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

Volumn 453, Issue 1962, 1997, Pages 1345-1364

  Brevdo, L ^a   Bridges, T J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; FLUID MECHANICS; INSTABILITY;

FLUID MECHANICS; INSTABILITY; SPATIALLY DEVELOPING FLOWS;

EID: 0031437142     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1997.0074     Document Type: Article

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