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Louis N. Howard
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 27
Citations - 2971
Louis N. Howard is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Instability & Normal mode. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 27 publications receiving 2777 citations. Previous affiliations of Louis N. Howard include University of Bristol & University of Cambridge.
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Note on a paper of John W. Miles
TL;DR: In this article, the theorem X established by Miles in the preceding paper is given a simpler and more general proof, and further theoretical results concerning the stability of heterogeneous shear flows are also presented, in particular a demonstration that the complex wave velocity of any unstable mode must lie in a certain semicircle.
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Hydrodynamic Stability of Parallel Flow of Inviscid Fluid
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the fundamental theory of inertial instability of plane parallel flow of inviscid fluid, and discussed certain integral issues such as eigenvalue problem for inertial modes, general stability characteristics of plane-parallel flow, the initial-value problem and the stability of nonparallel flows.
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Heat transport by turbulent convection
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the Nusselt number for any statistically steady convective motion cannot exceed a certain value N1(R), which for large R is approximately (3R/64)½.
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On the hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability of swirling flows
Louis N. Howard,A. S. Gupta +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, some general stability criteria for non-dissipative swirling flows are derived, and extended to the case of an electrically conducting fluid in the presence of axial magnetic field and current.
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Note on a heterogeneous shear flow
John W. Miles,Louis N. Howard +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the principal branch of this eigenvalue equation yields one and only one unstable mode if and only if the wave-number lies in a band that decreases from Rayleigh's band to zero as the Richardson number increases from 0 to ¼.