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On the linear stability of inviscid incompressible plane parallel flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

E. M. Barston
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60680, USA

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
Copyright
© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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References

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