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Fluid mechanics

the result that a stratified inviscid shear flow is stable if the gradient Richardson number exceeds one quarter everywhere.

In fluid mechanics, Miles-Howard criterion refers to the result that a stratified inviscid shear flow is stable if the gradient Richardson number exceeds one quarter everywhere. This meaning comes from Miles (1961) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics.[1]

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References

Miles, J. W. (1961). On the stability of heterogeneous shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 10(4), 496-508. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112061000305

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