Foreword by John Miles
Preface
1 INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction
2 Mechanisms of instability
3 Fundamental concepts of hydrodynamic stability
4 KeMn-Helmholtzinstability
5 Break-up of a liquid jet in air
Problems for chapter 1
2 THERMAL INSTABILITY
6 Introduction
7 The equations of motion
The exact equations
The Boussinesq equations
8 The stability problem
The linearized equations
The boundary conditions
Normal modes
9 General stability characteristics
Exchange of stabilities
A variational principle
10 Particular stability characteristics
Free-free boundaries
Rigid-rigid boundaries
free-rigid boundaries
11 The cells
12 Experimentalresults
13 Some applications
Problems for chapter 2
3 CENTRIFUGAL INSTABILITY
14 Introduction
15 Instability of an inviscid fluid
Three-dimensional disturbances
Axisymmetric disturbances
Two-dimensionaldisturbances
16 Instability of Couette flow of an inviscid fluid
17 The Taylor problem
Axisymmctric disturbances
Two-dimensional disturbances
Three-dimensional disturbances
Some experimental results
18 The Dean proble
The Dean problem
The Taylor-Dean problem
19 The Gortler problem
Problems for chapter 3
4 PARALLEL SHEAR FLOWS
20 Introduction
The inviscid theory
21 The governing equations
22 General criteria for instability
23 Flows with piecewise-linear velocity profiles
Unbounded vortex sheet
Unbounded shear layer
Bounded shear layer
24 The initial-value problem
The viscous theory
25 The governing equations
26 The eigenvalue spectrum for small Reynolds numbers
A perturbation expansion
Sufficient conditions for stability
27 Heuristic methods of approximation
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5 UNIFORM ASYMPTOTIC APPROXIMATIONS
6 ADDITIONAL TOPICS IN LINEAR STABILITY THEORY
7 NONLINEAR STABILITY
APPENDIX. A CLASS OF GENERALIZED AIRY FUNCTIONS