Conjugate shear flows of a weakly stratified fluid

This paper studies the problem of pairs of horizontal shear flows of weakly stratified fluids with identical mass, momentum, and energy fluxes. The initial problem is reduced to a system of two scalar equations for the main- and perturbed-flow parameters by using bifurcation methods. The existence conditions for nontrivial branches of conjugate flows close to the main flow are investigated. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 79–88, March–April, 2009.