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The growth of three-dimensional disturbances in inviscid flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

M. Gaster
Affiliation:
National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex

Abstract

It is shown by linear inviscid theory that the most highly amplified instability mode in an incompressible plane parallel flow is a two-dimensional one for either temporally or spatially growing waves.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1970 Cambridge University Press

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