Frontal instabilities and waves in a differentially rotating fluid

DOI10.1017/JFM.2011.338MaRDI QIDQ2893255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J.-B. Flór, H. Scolan, J. Gula

Publication date 26 June 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2011.338

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-geostrophic flowswaves in rotating fluidsbaroclinic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07)

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• Spatial Holmboe instability
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Cited in

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• Secondary instabilities in rapidly rotating fluids: inertial wave breakdown
• Formation of columnar baroclinic vortices in thermally stratified nonlinear spin-up
• Ageostrophic instabilities of fronts in a channel in a stratified rotating fluid
• On the generation mechanisms of short-scale unbalanced modes in rotating two-layer flows with vertical shear
• Rossby-Kelvin instability: a new type of ageostrophic instability caused by a resonance between Rossby waves and gravity waves
• Instabilities and small-scale waves within the Stewartson layers of a thermally driven rotating annulus
• Instability of a shallow-water potential-vorticity front

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