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Sheila E. Widnall

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Publications

37

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Active since

1966

Affiliations

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Current)

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

IIT@MIT

Ames Research Center

Princeton University

Sheila E. Widnall is an author at Massachusetts Institute of Technology specializing in fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, and aerospace engineering.

Publications per year

1966–2009

37

Publications

37

The two- and three-dimensional instabilities of a spatially periodic shear layer

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Sheila E. Widnall · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1982 · 460 citations

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The instability of short waves on a vortex ring

Sheila E. Widnall, Donald B. Bliss, Chon-Yin Tsai · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1974 · 377 citations

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On the stability of vortex rings

Sheila E. Widnall, J. P. Sullivan · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1973 · 275 citations

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A flow-visualization study of transition in plane Poiseuille flow

Dale R. Carlson, Sheila E. Widnall, M. F. Peeters · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1982 · 266 citations

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The stability of short waves on a straight vortex filament in a weak externally imposed strain field

Chon-Yin Tsai, Sheila E. Widnall · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1976 · 240 citations

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