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Due to the importance of gravitational forces, flows of astrophysical interest are often observed in a supersonic regime, which gives rise for their description to various analytical or numerical difficulties. Let us briefly mention as examples the supersonic turbulence observed in interstellar clouds, stellar or galactic jets and accretion disks where gravitational energy is thought to be converted into radiation. The interested reader may consult for instance an account of recent works concerning disk stability in Narayan & Goodman (1989) and the references therein. However, despite the central role played by such dynamical phenomena in the description of cosmic objects, the basic problems associated with matter inflow and angular momentum outflow remain still unsolved. The complexity of the problem urges on studying first the stability properties of supersonic flows in the simpler case of plane shearing and examining in a second step questions related to rotation and gravitation.
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Dolez, N., Léorat, J. (1991). Numerical simulations of supersonic plane Couette flow instability. In: Metais, O., Lesieur, M. (eds) Turbulence and Coherent Structures. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7904-9_31
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