Shear instability of internal solitary waves in Euler fluids with thin pycnoclines

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.366MaRDI QIDQ2863408zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Almgren, R. Tiron, Roberto Camassa

Publication date 21 November 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.366

zbMATH Keywords

internal wavesshear layersabsolute/convective instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15)

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