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On the stability of a plane vortex sheet with respect to three-dimensional disturbances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

J. A. Fejer
Affiliation:
Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
John W. Miles
Affiliation:
Southwest Centre for Advanced Studies, P.O. Box 8478, Dallas, Texas

Abstract

The previously established criterion for the stability of a vortex sheet with respect to two-dimensional disturbances in a compressible fluid is extended to three-dimensional disturbances, and it is shown that disturbances travelling at sufficiently oblique angles with respect to the undisturbed flow are unstable. Slip-line instability downstream of a Mach reflexion is discussed briefly.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1963 Cambridge University Press

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