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A comment on Gans' stability criterion for steady inviscid helical gas flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

F. W. Warren
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London

Abstract

Gans' criterion is shown to be valid for all inviscid non-diffusive flows where the radial velocity is everywhere zero and the physical variables are functions of the radial distance only. That is, a modified form of the Miles-Howard theorem holds for a large class of helical gas flows.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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References

Gans, R. F. 1975 On the stability of shear flow in a rotating gas. J. Fluid Mech. 68, 403.Google Scholar