Coupling of damped and growing modes in unstable shear flow

Published in Physics of Plasmas, 2017

Recommended citation: Fraser, A.E., Terry, P.W., Zweibel, E.G., Pueschel, M.J. (2017), Physics of Plasmas 24, 062304. http://afraser3.github.io/files/Fraser2017.pdf

Analytic calculations show that stable (damped) inviscid modes are nonlinear driven by unstable modes in an unstratified shear flow.

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Recommended citation: Fraser, A.E., Terry, P.W., Zweibel, E.G., Pueschel, M.J. (2017), Physics of Plasmas 24, 062304.