On the mechanism of generation of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

2016/01/20 by Ershkovich, Alexander
#FOS: Physical sciences #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1601.05836

Abstract

Mechanism of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability based on the Kutta-Zhoukovsky theorem is considered. The mechanism itself generates the velocity shear, thereby redistributing the flow energy which drives the instability.

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