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properties > chemicophysical properties > instability > Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

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Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

Last modified: 2021-09-13T17:21:56

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability  

DEFINITION

  • Kelvin–Helmholtz instability is the name given, since the 1940s, to an instability of a shear layer in a fluid, which is the mechanism of many phenomena observed in the atmosphere and oceans

    Created: 9/13/21

    (en)

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ENTRY TERMS

  • Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

    helmholtz instability (en)

  • Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

    shear flow instability (en)

  • Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

    shear instability (en)

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