Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-vfjqv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-29T19:06:32.054Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A note on the mechanism of the instability at the interface between two shearing fluids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

E. J. Hinch
E. J. Hinch
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge CB3 9EW
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

In a recent paper Hooper & Boyd (1983) have shown that the unbounded stratified Couette flow of two viscous fluids of equal density and with no interfacial tension is always unstable. They found that the instability arises at the interface between the two fluids and occurs at short wavelengths where viscosity is more important than inertia. The purpose of this note is to provide a simple physical explanation of the mechanics of the instability.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 144 , July 1984 , pp. 463 - 465
Copyright
© 1984 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Hooper, A. P. & Boyd, W. G. C. 1983 J. Fluid Mech. 128, 507.