Instabilities of a horizontal shear flow with a free surface

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 364, Issue , 1998, Pages 147-162

  Longuet Higgins, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYNOMIALS; STABILITY; VORTEX FLOW;

FROUDE NUMBER;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0032095269     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098008957     Document Type: Article

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