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The fundamental solution for small steady three-dimensional disturbances to a two-dimensional parallel shear flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

M. J. Lighthill
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester

Abstract

In addition to the enormous aerodynamical literature concerned with the disturbances to a uniform stream produced by the presence of obstacles, there is a very extensive litrature on disturbances to irrotational non-uniform streams. The smaller body of work on disturbances to rotational streams is concerned principally with two-dimensional disturbances to a parallel shear flow; these are fairly easy to treat because the vortex lines are straight; they remain parallel and do not get stretched at all during the motion.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1957 Cambridge University Press

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