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Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability of a Finite Shear Layer between Two Parallel Streams of Different Densities


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The .study of the hydrodynamie stability of a shear layer between parallel streams was initiated by Helmholtz (1868). He considered two streams of inviscid fluids with a discontinuous velocity profile, i.e.. the two streams are considered to be separated by a vortex sheet of zero thickness.


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A. K. Ganguli
Department of Mathematics, Fatna College, Patna 5,, India

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The .study of the hydrodynamie stability of a shear layer between parallel streams was initiated by Helmholtz (1868). He considered two streams of inviscid fluids with a discontinuous velocity profile, i.e.. the two streams are considered to be separated by a vortex sheet of zero thickness.