The instability of stratified flows at large Richardson numbers

DOI10.1073/PNAS.95.14.7850zbMath0905.76025OpenAlexW2001723831WikidataQ36162634 ScholiaQ36162634MaRDI QIDQ3838484

Andrew J. Majda, Michael G. Shefter

Publication date: 13 August 1998

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.14.7850

zbMATH Keywords

density overturninglocal shears on buoyancy time scaleslocalized regime of strong mixingstep-like microstructuretime-periodic stratified flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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