On the instability of an internal gravity wave

DOI10.1098/rspa.1977.0142zbMath0367.76043OpenAlexW2114364153MaRDI QIDQ4144348

Philip G. Drazin

Publication date: 1977

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1977.0142

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Miscellaneous topics in partial differential equations (35R99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B99)

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