Category
page 1Fluid dynamic instabilities
Jeans instability
mechanism which causes the collapse of interstellar gas clouds and subsequent star formation
Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
fluid instability that occurs when there is velocity shear in a single continuous fluid or a velocity difference across the interface between two fluids
Rayleigh–Taylor instability
unstable behavior of two contacting fluids of different densities
Plateau–Rayleigh instability
Fluid breakup of a falling stream
Rayleigh–Bénard convection
natural convection, occurring in a plane horizontal layer of fluid heated from below, in which the fluid develops a regular pattern of convection cells known as Bénard cells
Görtler vortices
Secondary flow structures in the boundary layer of a fluid following a curved wall
Taylor–Couette flow
type of flow
Richtmyer–Meshkov instability
Instability in two different density fluids
viscous fingering
fluid dynamics
Orr–Sommerfeld equation
eigenvalue equation describing the linear two-dimensional modes of disturbances