Elementary stratified flows with instability at large Richardson number

DOI10.1017/S0022112098003085zbMath0936.76024OpenAlexW2168689254MaRDI QIDQ4243871

Andrew J. Majda, Michael G. Shefter

Publication date: 7 May 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098003085

zbMATH Keywords

advectionBoussinesq equationsFloquet theorytime-periodic solutionsnonlinear pendulum equationbaroclinic vorticity productiontime-periodic vortical flowstransient large-amplitude non-normal regimeuniform shear flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50)

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