A note on nonlinear stability of plane parallel shear flows

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 302, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 543-556

  Kaiser, R ^a   Mulone, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy functional; Lyapunov method; Nonlinear stability; Parallel shear flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644263348     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2004.08.025     Document Type: Article

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