On the instability of sheared disturbances

DOI10.1017/S002211208700048XzbMath0612.76046WikidataQ59647552 ScholiaQ59647552MaRDI QIDQ3753675

Peter H. Haynes

Publication date: 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

initial disturbancesvorticity distributionbeta-planeunbounded flowabsolute- vorticity contoursbarotropically unstablesmall-amplitude disturbanceswavy configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• Initial-value problems for Rossby waves in a shear flow with critical level

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