Internal gravity waves in shear flows at large Reynolds number

DOI10.1017/S0022112086000642zbMath0623.76029MaRDI QIDQ3761917

Hennie Kelder, C. A. van Duin

Publication date: 1986

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

zbMATH Keywords

reflection; Boussinesq approximation; heat conduction; transmission coefficients; analytical methods; over-reflection; propagation of internal gravity; stably stratified, parallel shear flow; Taylor-Goldstein equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76N15: Gas dynamics (general theory)

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

76D33: Waves for incompressible viscous fluids

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