Effect of wind profile on the instability of wind blowing over water

DOI10.1017/S0022112093003805MaRDI QIDQ3136397zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors L. C. Morland, Philip G. Saffman

Publication date 5 October 1993

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

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalue problemlinear stability analysisKelvin-Helmholtz instabilitywave speedhighly sheared wind profile

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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