On potential energy density in an incompressible, stratified fluid

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001742zbMath0486.76118OpenAlexW2016286269MaRDI QIDQ3947393

M. E. McIntyre, Dennis Holliday

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081001742

zbMATH Keywords

continuously stratifieddisplacements or mixing processespositive definite expressions in power series and in closed form for potential energy densityrapidly varying buoyancy frequencysharp pycnocline

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99)

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