On the collective instability of salt fingers

DOI10.1017/S0022112081000682zbMath0484.76057MaRDI QIDQ3944209

Judith Y. Holyer

Publication date: 1981

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

zbMATH Keywords

two-scale approachcollective instability of salt fingerslong wavelength internal wave perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Diffusion and convection (76R99)

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