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This paper suggests a hydrodynamic stability theory of distorted laminar flow, and presents a kind of distortion profile of mean velocity in parallel shear flow. With such distortion profiles, the new theory can be used to investigate the stability behaviour of parallel shear flow, and thus suggests a new possible approach to instability.
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Zhe-wei, Z. On the stability of distorted laminar flow (I) —Basic ideas and theory. Appl Math Mech 10, 123–138 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02014819
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