Instabilities of shear layers
Emmanuel Grenier1
1Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications (2025), Exposé no. 12, 24 p.

The aim of this note is to present a general overview of the linear stability and instability of shear layers near a boundary for both the incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations.

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DOI : 10.5802/slsedp.186

Emmanuel Grenier  1

1 Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 
Emmanuel Grenier. Instabilities of shear layers. Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications (2025), Exposé no. 12, 24 p.. doi: 10.5802/slsedp.186
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