Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

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Kelvin-Helmholtz instability [¦kel·vin ′helm‚hōls ‚in·stə′bil·əd·ē]

(fluid mechanics)

An instability that occurs at the interface between two fluid layers if their relative motion is sufficiently large, and eventually results in the disruption of the interface.

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