Concept

Instability

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Explores the stability analysis of shear flows, emphasizing conditions for flow instability and the impact of varying temperature profiles.

Plasma Instabilities: Case Studies

Analyzes plasma instabilities through case studies, exploring the implications of roots in the complex plane.

Instability analysis

Covers various types of flow instabilities and the analysis of instability mechanisms and criteria.

Vortex Instabilities

Explores vortex shedding, flow separation, and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, along with shear flows and numerical solutions using MATLAB.

Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh Taylor Instabilities

Explores Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh Taylor instabilities, kinematic conditions, linearized equations, and normal mode expansion.

Shear Flows: Instabilities and Waves

Explores shear flows, instabilities, and waves in spatially developing flows.

Complex Fourier Space Analysis

Covers the analysis of instability in complex Fourier space and its application to mixing layers.

Instability in fluid flows

Explores different fluid flow instabilities such as Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz, discussing transient and spatial growth, dispersion relation, and shear layer instability.

Introduction: Hydrodynamics

Covers fundamental hydrodynamics concepts, including two-phase flows, turbulence, and practical CFD examples.

Thin film instability

Explores thin liquid film instability, including dispersion relation, scaling laws, and experimental validation.

Rayleigh-Plateau Instability

Explores the Rayleigh-Plateau instability in fluid flows, discussing surface tension effects and historical experiments related to this phenomenon.

Boiling Phenomena: Stability and Heat Transfer

Explores the stability and heat transfer in boiling phenomena, covering different regimes and key correlations.

Transient and Spatial Flow Instabilities

Explores transient and spatial growth in flow instabilities, dispersion relations, and necessary conditions for instability.

Rayleigh Taylor Instability: Analysis and Equations

Explores Rayleigh Taylor instability, incompressible equations, and boundary conditions.

Fluid Mechanics: Boundary Layer Instability and Transition

Explores boundary layer instability, transition, and flow nonlinearities in fluid mechanics.

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: Mechanical Example

Covers the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, flow examples, and boundary conditions in a mechanical context.

Instability: parallel flow concepts

Explores fluid flow instabilities, including Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz, and parallel flow concepts like normal mode decomposition and Squire's transformation.

Instability of 2D fluid flow

Covers the stability analysis of a 2D fluid flow and various instabilities.

Kelvin's Wake and Instability Theory

Explores Kelvin's wake, instability theory, and fluid dynamics analysis in various flow scenarios.

Thermal Instabilities: Rayleigh-Benard Analysis

Explores fluid instabilities, focusing on Rayleigh-Benard analysis and key concepts like buoyancy and temperature gradients.