Three-dimensional wave instability near a critical level

DOI10.1017/S0022112094004465zbMath0846.76030MaRDI QIDQ4318531

Eric A. D'Asaro, Kraig B. Winters

Publication date: 3 October 1996

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

zbMATH Keywords

energy balanceconvective rollsinternal gravity wave packets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Waves for incompressible viscous fluids (76D33) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• The effect of viscosity and heat conduction on internal gravity waves at a critical level
• A non-linear investigation of critical levels for internal atmospheric gravity waves

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