Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gvvz8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-19T19:18:57.007Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

On the linear stability of inviscid incompressible plane parallel flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

E. M. Barston
E. M. Barston
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60680, USA
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A class of constants of motion is obtained for the time-dependent form of the Rayleigh stability equation, which provides stability criteria for velocity profiles with multiple inflexion points.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 233 , December 1991 , pp. 157 - 163
Copyright
© 1991 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barston, E. M. 1977 Intl J. Engng Sci. 15, 71.
Craik, A. D. D. 1972 J. Fluid Mech. 53, 657.
Drazin, P. G. & Howard, L. N. 1966 Adv. Appl. Mech. 9, 1.
Drazin, P. G. & Reid, W. H. 1981 Hydrodynamic Stability. Cambridge University Press.