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A note on the relation between temporally-increasing and spatially-increasing disturbances in hydrodynamic stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

M. Gaster
Affiliation:
College of Aeronautics, Cranfield

Abstract

The frequency and amplification rates for a disturbance growing with respect to time are compared with those of a spatially-growing wave having the same wave-number. For small rates of amplification it is shown that the frequencies are equal to a high order of approximation, and that the spatial growth is related to the time growth by the group velocity.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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