Stable and unstable shear modes of rotating parallel flows in shallow water

DOI10.1017/S0022112087002982zbMath0639.76048MaRDI QIDQ3780622

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Publication date: 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

potential vorticityinstabilitiesequatorial beta- planerotating, shallow-water, shear flowswave with negative wave energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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