Instability of a charged plane interface between two liquids with respect to the tangential discontinuity of a time-dependent velocity field

The differential equation that describes the evolution of perturbations of a charged plane boundary between immiscible liquids when the upper liquid moves relative to the lower one with a time-dependent velocity parallel to the boundary is the Hill equation. In this system, the interface can exhibit instabilities of three types at various values of physical parameters: the Kelvin-Helmholtz, Tonks-Frenkel, and parametric instability. When physical parameters have certain values, the interface that is unstable with respect to surface charge and the tangential discontinuity of the velocity field across the interface can be parametrically stabilized.