On the stability of elliptical vortex solutions of the shallow-water equations

DOI10.1017/S0022112087002660zbMath0639.76051MaRDI QIDQ3780625

Pedro Ripa

Publication date: 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

stability conditionsshallow-water equationsfinite-amplitude perturbationssolid-body rotationf-planeanticyclonic absolute vorticitymodel vortexone-layer reduced gravity equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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