Abstract

A study of the linear stability of asymmetric channel flows is presented. Three one-parameter families of basic velocity which possess, respectively, no, one, and two inflection points are treated. The competing effects of stabilizing asymmetry and destabilizing vorticity distributions are discussed. An inviscid wave speed theorem which extends a result of Stuart to flows with two inflection points is proved.

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