On the Shear Induced Growth and Damping of Waves.

Abstract

It is shown very simply with a time domain analysis that shear always stabilizes positive or negative energy waves. If the mode energy changes sign as a function of position however, shear may destabilize the wave.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA016182

Entities

People

  • Wallace M. Manheimer

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Time Domain

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.