Quasigeostrophic model of the instabilities of the Stewartson layer in flat and depth-varying containers

DOI10.1063/1.2073547zbMath1188.76138WikidataQ107493668 ScholiaQ107493668MaRDI QIDQ3557291

Nathanaël Schaeffer, Philippe Cardin

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2073547

zbMATH Keywords

waves; shear flow; flow instability; rotational flow; confined flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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