Nonlinear stability and statistical mechanics of flow over topography

DOI10.1017/S002211208700034XzbMath0651.76020OpenAlexW1996001223MaRDI QIDQ3796896

George F. Carnevale, J. S. Frederiksen

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211208700034x

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear stabilitybarotropic quasi- geostrophic flow over topographycanonical statistical mechanicslimit of infinite resolutionnonlinearly stable minimum enstrophy statestatistical mechanical equilibrium state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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