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Shear layer instability of an inviscid compressible fluid. Part 3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

P. G. Drazin  and
A. Davey
P. G. Drazin
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, England
A. Davey
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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Abstract

This note corrects and augments the results of Blumen, Drazin & Billings (1975) on the linear instability of a shear layer between two streams of an inviscid compressible fluid at the same temperature. The main conclusion of these authors, that the shear layer is unstable to two-dimensional disturbances however large the Mach number, is confirmed in the present paper. Also a third mode of instability is discovered and the character of all three modes revealed by a series of accurate calculations.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , 7 September 1977 , pp. 255 - 260
Copyright
© 1977 Cambridge University Press

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