Oscillatory and competing instabilities in a nonlinear model for Langmuir circulations

DOI10.1063/1.865386zbMath0574.76046MaRDI QIDQ3693109

Sidney Leibovich, Irene M. Moroz

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865386

zbMATH Keywords

buoyancy; oscillatory convection; center manifold; double diffusion; normal form transformations; multiple bifurcation; Langmuir circulations; destabilizing vertical Stokes drift gradient; five-mode truncation; stabilizing vertical stratification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E15: Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability

37-XX: Dynamical systems and ergodic theory

76Rxx: Diffusion and convection

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