The instability of stratified flows at large Richardson numbers

DOI10.1073/PNAS.95.14.7850MaRDI QIDQ3838484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors 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

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

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