The instability and breakdown of tall columnar vortices in a quasi-geostrophic fluid

DOI10.1017/S0022112096008671zbMath0893.76027OpenAlexW1976808997WikidataQ123424120 ScholiaQ123424120MaRDI QIDQ4358970

Manuel de la Torre Juárez, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 22 July 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112096008671

zbMATH Keywords

linear stability analysiscompressible flowBoussinesq flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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