Stability of stationary barotropic modons by Lyapunov's direct method

DOI10.1017/S0022112090001628zbMath0686.76010WikidataQ125743639 ScholiaQ125743639MaRDI QIDQ4205172

Hirofumi Sakuma, Michael Ghil

Publication date: 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

shallow-water equationssufficient conditionclass of perturbationsLyapunov stability conditionlarge-scale geophysical flowsgauge-variable formalismlocalized coherent structures of modon typepseudo-eastward flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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