The growth of gravity-capillary waves in a coupled shear flow

The growth rates and phase speeds of gravity-capillary wind waves are investigated through numerical solution of a linear, viscous, coupled, shear-flow perturbation model. Numerical results are obtained by transforming the boundary-value problem of a perturbed mean laminar shear flow into a matrix-e...

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Published in:Journal of fluid mechanics 1976-07, Vol.76 (2), p.229-250
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