Instabilities of buoyancy-driven coastal currents and their nonlinear evolution in the two-layer rotating shallow-water model. Part 1. Passive lower layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112010002405zbMath1205.76119MaRDI QIDQ3075713

Vladimir Zeitlin, Jonathan Gula

Publication date: 17 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

gravity currentsshallow-water flowswaves in rotating fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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