On Holmboe’s instability for smooth shear and density profiles

DOI10.1063/1.2001567zbMath1187.76016arXivphysics/0503241OpenAlexW2091141846MaRDI QIDQ3555226

Alexandros Alexakis

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0503241

zbMATH Keywords

shear flowgravity wavesflow instabilitystratified flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

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Dynamics of vorticity defects in stratified shear flow ⋮ Stratified shear flow instabilities at large Richardson numbers ⋮ Instabilities in a staircase stratified shear flow ⋮ Symmetric Holmboe instabilities in a laboratory exchange flow ⋮ Elementary stratified flows with stability at low Richardson number ⋮ The viscous Holmboe instability for smooth shear and density profiles ⋮ Marginally unstable Holmboe modes ⋮ Holmboe wave fields in simulation and experiment ⋮ Identifying unstable modes in stratified shear layers ⋮ Holmboe modes revisited ⋮ Stability analysis of stratified shear flows with a monotonic velocity profile without inflection points. Part 2. Continuous density variation ⋮ Shear-induced breaking of large internal solitary waves ⋮ Effect of free surface on submerged stratified shear instabilities ⋮ Turbulent mixing due to the Holmboe wave instability at high Reynolds number ⋮ Fractal sets of neutral curves for stably stratified plane Couette flow ⋮ Holmboe instability in non-Boussinesq fluids

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• The Kelvin–Helmholtz to Holmboe instability transition in stratified exchange flows
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