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For flow of a viscous fluid in a divergent channel of small angle it is shown that small disturbances to the basic Jeffery-Hamel flow may grow, according to nonlinear theory, to produce a secondary (supercritical) flow, in which the main flow winds from side to side in the channel and vortices form, with the whole pattern moving slowly downstream.
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P. M. Eagles (1973) studied this question.
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