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A large body of theoretical work has been developed in attempts to understand and predict phenomena of the sort described in the previous chapter. In most cases the cause of the instability can be formulated in a way that gives some physical understanding of the processes involved. However, this is usually opposed by some stabilizing process, such as the damping action of viscosity, and the physical argument provides no precise information about when the instability will occur. It also provides little indication of the detailed structure of the motion resulting from the instability.
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Tritton, D.J. (1977). The Theory of Hydrodynamic Stability. In: Physical Fluid Dynamics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9992-3_18
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