'Phase diagram' of interfacial instabilities in a two-layer Couette flow and mechanism of the long-wave instability

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 414, Issue , 2000, Pages 195-223

  Charru, François ^a   Hinch, E John ^b  

^a IMFT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUETTE FLOW; STABILITY;

COUETTE FLOW; STABILITY;

EID: 0033866441     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200000851X     Document Type: Article

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