Instability and wave over-reflection in stably stratified shear flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112085000921zbMath0555.76043MaRDI QIDQ3220228

Richard S. Lindzen, John W. Barker

Publication date: 1984

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

zbMATH Keywords

stratified shear flowsinstability of parallel shear flowsover-reflection of internal waves at a critical levelscattering of steady plane wavessecond wave region

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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