Weakly nonlinear analysis of short-wave elliptical instability

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Rodrigues, Savio B ^a   De Luca, Jayme ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELLIPTICAL INSTABILITY; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; FINITE TIME BLOW-UP; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INVISCID FLOWS; LINEAR INSTABILITIES; SUBCRITICAL REGIONS; SUPER-CRITICAL REGIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 59649097748     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3068188     Document Type: Article

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