Hydrodynamic Instabilities

摘要

The study of hydrodynamic instabilities continues to remain an important topic in fluid mechanics, and a thorough understanding of the subject is essential for the study of important physical phenomena, such as transition to turbulence, thermal instabilities, formation of surface waves, instability of flame fronts, etc. The archival literature on the subject is vast, making any attempt to write a textbook on the subject daunting. Charru has written a beautiful and modern introductory text on the subject from an applied mathematician's viewpoint, bridging the gap between books like Betchov and Criminale [1], Drazin and Reid [2], Drazin [3], the more recent textbook of Schmid and Henningson [4], and this reviewer's own textbook on the subject, Criminale et al. [5].