Spatial versus temporal instabilities in a parametrically forced stratified mixing layer

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 552, Issue , 2006, Pages 189-227

  Gelfgat, A Yu ^a   Kit, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

GASTER TRANSFORMATION; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; STRATIFIED MIXING LAYER FLOW;

MIXING;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

INSTABILITY;

EID: 33645345137     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005008608     Document Type: Article

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