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Non-parallel flow corrections for the stability of shear flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Chi-Hai Ling
Affiliation:
Stanford University Present address: Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle Washington.
W. C. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Stanford University

Abstract

The proper corrections for non-parallel flow to the eigenvalues for small disturbances on a nearly parallel shear flow have been determined through a perturbation about the parallel flow solutions. The resulting shifts in the neutral stability curves have been calculated for the Blasius boundary layer, for the two-dimensional jet, and for the two-dimensional flat-plate wake.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1973 Cambridge University Press

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