The nonlinear development of disturbances in a zonal shear flow

DOI10.1080/03091928708219202MaRDI QIDQ3787679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors S. M. Churilov, I. G. Shukhman

Publication date 1987

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928708219202

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear stabilitycritical layersmall disturbancesbeta-plane approximationa weakly supercritical zonal shear flowdynamic of initially small disturbanceslinear regimeswave grows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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• Critical Layers m Parallel Flows
• Effects of critical layer structure on the nonlinear evolution of waves in free shear layers
• Nonlinear Perturbations of the Orr–Sommerfeld Equation—Asymptotic Expansion of the Logarithmic Phase Shift Across the Critical Layer
• Nonlinear stability of a zonal shear flow
• The evolution of the critical layer of a Rossby wave
• The evolution of the critical layer of a rossby wave. Part II
• The stability of an asymmetric zonal current in the atmosphere
• Time-dependent critical layers in shear flows on the beta-plane

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• The nonlinear stabilization of a zonal shear flow instability
• The Effect of Profile Symmetry on the Nonlinear Stability of Mixing Layers
• Time-dependent critical layers in shear flows on the beta-plane
• Nonlinear stability of a zonal shear flow
• A shocking display of synchrony
• Self-consistent chaotic transport in fluids and plasmas
• Quasi-linear instability theory for a weakly supercritical zonal shear flow on the β-plane

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