A necessary and sufficient instability condition for inviscid shear flow

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-344

  Balmforth, N J ^b   Morrison, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS; CONDITION; CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM; EQUILIBRIUM VELOCITY; INSTABILITY CONDITION; MONOTONICS; NYQUIST; PARALLEL SHEAR FLOWS; TWO DIMENSIONAL PLANE; VELOCITY PROFILES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0039726848     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00113     Document Type: Article

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