An analytic approach for calculating absolutely unstable inviscid modes of the boundary layer on a rotating disk

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 419-435

  Turkyilmazoglu, M ^a   Gajjar, J S B ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ROTATING DISKS;

ABSOLUTE INSTABILITY; ANALYTIC APPROACH; ANALYTICAL TREATMENT; ASYMPTOTICS; CRITICAL LAYER; LONG WAVELENGTH; RAYLEIGH; ROTATING DISC; SCALINGS; UNSTABLE MODES;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

EID: 0039298459     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00173     Document Type: Article

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