Download or read book Secondary Instabilities in Compressible Boundary Layers written by Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines secondary instabilities in compressible boundary layers at Mach numbers M at = 0, 0.8, 1.6, and 4.5. We find that there is a broad-dand of highly unstable 3-d secondary disturbances whose growth rates increase with increasing primary wave amplitude. At M