Inviscid instability of a skewed compressible mixing layer

We study the inviscid instability of a skewed compressible mixing layer between streams of different velocity magnitude and direction. The mean flow is governed by the three-dimensional laminar boundary-layer equations and can be reduced to a sum of a uniform flow and a two-dimensional shear flow. In the stability analysis, the amplification direction is assumed to be normal to the homogeneous direction of the mean flow. The results show that skewing enhances the instability by a factor of three for the incompressible mixing layer with velocity ratio 0.5 and uniform temperature. Under compressible conditions, skewing still increases the maximum amplification rate for a medium convective Mach number, but the enhancement is smaller