A note on potential energy density in a stratified compressible fluid

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001754zbMath0493.76110OpenAlexW2140585046MaRDI QIDQ3956670

David G. Andrews

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081001754

zbMATH Keywords

disturbance potentialexact, local, positive definite expression for potential energy density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10)

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