The stability of a two-dimensional steady-state flow: Local growth of perturbations

DOI10.1080/03091928708208814zbMath0636.76037OpenAlexW2012957749WikidataQ114640361 ScholiaQ114640361MaRDI QIDQ3776848

Jacques Derome, John Fyfe

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928708208814

zbMATH Keywords

spectral methodbaroclinic instabilityWKB theorylinear instabilitysteady-stateconstant mean zonal windfastest growing eigenmodelocally-zonal approachsinusoidal topographyweakly non-zonal barotropic flowzonal spatial scale separation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

Cites Work

• Barotropic instability of weakly non-parallel zonal flows
• Nonparallel stability of boundary-layer flows
• Convective and absolute instability of baroclinic eddies
• A note on quasi-geostrophic flow over topography in bounded basin

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