Instabilities of two-layer shallow-water flows with vertical shear in the rotating annulus

DOI10.1017/S0022112009990796zbMath1183.76718MaRDI QIDQ3550386

R. Plougonven, Vladimir Zeitlin, Jonathan Gula

Publication date: 31 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112009990796

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E07: Rotation in hydrodynamic stability

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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