On the instability of an internal gravity wave

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1977.0142MaRDI QIDQ4144348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philip G. Drazin

Publication date 1977

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.1977.0142

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• The wave-induced flow of internal gravity wavepackets with arbitrary aspect ratio
• Internal wave instability: Wave-wave versus wave-induced mean flow interactions
• Nonlinear instability of elementary stratified flows at large Richardson number
• Internal gravity waves in shear flows at large Reynolds number
• Instability and breakdown of internal gravity waves. I. Linear stability analysis
• Instabilities in internal gravity waves
• Direct numerical simulation of a breaking inertia-gravity wave
• Short-wavelength instabilities of waves in rotating stratified fluids
• Short-wavelength instabilities in a finite-amplitude plane inertial wave
• Applications of catastrophe theory to the physical sciences
• Two-dimensional internal gravity wave beam instability. Linear theory and subcritical instability
• On the generation of large-scale structures in a homogeneous eddy field
• On plane internal waves: their amplification, and potential to break in a rotating stratified quiescent fluid
• Energy and entropy evolution of interacting internal gravity waves and turbulence
• Generation, propagation, and breaking of an internal wave beam
• Nonlinear internal waves in the upper atmosphere

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