The nonlinear development of disturbances in a zonal shear flow

DOI10.1080/03091928708219202zbMath0644.76063OpenAlexW2026720229WikidataQ114640334 ScholiaQ114640334MaRDI QIDQ3787679

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 stabilitysmall disturbancescritical layerbeta-plane approximationa weakly supercritical zonal shear flowdynamic of initially small disturbanceslinear regimeswave grows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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