LONG-WAVE INSTABILITY IN MARGINALLY STABLE SHEAR FLOWS

Authors
BALMFORTH NJ YOUNG WR
Citation
Nj. Balmforth et Wr. Young, LONG-WAVE INSTABILITY IN MARGINALLY STABLE SHEAR FLOWS, Physical review letters, 79(21), 1997, pp. 4155-4158
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
79
Issue
21
Year of publication
1997
Pages
4155 - 4158
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)79:21<4155:LIIMSS>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
A reduced description of disturbances on marginally stable shear flows is presented. The system is the Boussinesq equation coupled to a crit ical-layer, vorticity equation.