A simple model for the effect of water shear on the generation of waves by wind

DOI10.1098/rspa.1992.0094zbMath0759.76026OpenAlexW2059633865MaRDI QIDQ4015105

Philip G. Saffman, M. Zales Caponi, Henry C. Yuen, Enrique A. Caponi

Publication date: 6 December 1992

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1992.0094

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalue problemair-water interfacequartic equationhigh-frequency radar imagingKelvin- Helmholtz-type instabilityMiles-type mechanism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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