Absolute instability in axisymmetric wakes: compressible and density variation effects
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A note on the absolute instability of wakes
The family of wake profiles formed from the Falkner–Skan boundary-layer solutions with negative pressure gradient, m, was shown in (Woodley and Peake, 1997) to be inviscidly absolutely unstable. However, due to numerical difficulties, the limit m→ 0 was not considered there, although the results that were found appeared to indicate that the double Blasius profile (m = 0) is absolutely unstable....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-1120,1469-7645
DOI: 10.1017/s0022112008000499