《Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics Volume XIII Hydrodynamic Instability》

On the instability of shear flows＆By C．C．LIN and D．J．BENNEY1

Hydrodynamic stability and the initial value problem＆By K．M．CASE25

Stability theory in plasma physics＆By MARSHALL N．ROSENBLUTH35

Experimental determination of stability limits＆By R．J．DONNELLY41

Helmholtz and Taylor instability＆By GARRETT BIRKHOFF55

Slip line instability＆By RUSSELL E．DUFF77

Generation of surface waves by shear flows＆By JOHN W．MILES79

Resonance phenomena in gravity waves＆By O．M．PHILLIPS91

The statistical geometry of random surfaces＆By M．S．LONGUET-HIGGINS105

On the oscillations of ships in confused seas＆By M．ST．DENIS145

Remarks on the functional-analytic approach to turbulence＆By EBERHARD HOPF157

Statistical mechanics of continuous media＆By J．KAMPE DE FERIET165

The closure problem of turbulence theory＆By ROBERT H．KRAICHNAN199

Wave propagation in random media＆By JOSEPH B．KELLER227

Stability of many-body computations＆By S．ULAM247

Control in linear systems＆By BROCKWAY MCMILLAN259

On the foundations of a theory of stochastic variational processes＆By RICHARD BELLMAN275

Control of randomly varying linear dynamical systems＆By R．E．KALMAN287

Asymptotic stability criteria＆By J．P．LASALLE299

Flow between rotating cylinders in hydrodynamics and hydromagnetics＆By S．CHANDRASEKHAR309

AUTHOR INDEX311

SUBJECT INDEX315