Propagation of Waves in Shear Flows

Download or read book Propagation of Waves in Shear Flows written by Anatoli? L?vovich Fabrikant and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of well-known theorems of the hydrodynamic theory of stability are interpreted in terms of the interaction of the waves having different energy signs. Attention is drawn to the plasma-hydrodynamic analogy, which is a powerful tool for physical analyses of general mechanisms of wave amplification and absorption in flows. Various wave-flow interaction problems are considered, for instance, sound generation in whistlers, wave scattering and amplification by vortices, methods of wave remote sounding, and some nonlinear dynamical and chaotic phenomena.