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Shear Flow Instability

Shear Flow Instability is a hydrodynamic instability phenomenon characterized by the spontaneous growth of perturbations in a fluid flow with a velocity gradient perpendicular to the direction of shear, arising due to the transfer of energy from the mean flow to disturbed modes when viscous damping is insufficient to suppress such disturbances.

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Local and Global Instabilities in Spatially Developing Flows

Patrick Huerre, Peter A. Monkewitz · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 1990 · 2K citations

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On the stability of heterogeneous shear flows

John W. Miles · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1961 · 1.5K citations

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Note on a paper of John W. Miles

Louis N. Howard · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1961 · 1K citations

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On a self-sustaining process in shear flows

Fabian Waleffe · Physics of Fluids · 1997 · 883 citations

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On spatially growing disturbances in an inviscid shear layer

A. Michalke · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1965 · 826 citations

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  1. WR
    W. R. Peltier

    University of Toronto, Canada

    8 publications · 300 citations

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  2. CP
    C. P. Caulfield

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 278 citations

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    Marc Rabaud

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    7 publications · 451 citations

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  4. SM
    S. M. Churilov

    Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Russia

    6 publications · 135 citations

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  5. WD
    William D. Smyth

    Oregon State University, United States

    6 publications · 362 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    28 h-index

    105 publications

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  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    24 h-index

    59 publications

    2.8K citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    29 publications

    5.4K citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    12 h-index

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  5. Kyushu University

    Fukuoka, Japan

    12 h-index

    29 publications

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  6. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    490 citations

  7. Oregon State University

    Corvallis, United States

    10 h-index

    22 publications

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  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    10 h-index

    19 publications

    2.5K citations

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  1. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    148 publications · 15.6K citations

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  2. Physics of Fluids

    44 publications · 2.6K citations

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  3. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    35 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 30 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 17 publications · 1.8K citations

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