Elementary stratified flows with instability at large Richardson number

DOI10.1017/S0022112098003085MaRDI QIDQ4243871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew J. Majda, Michael G. Shefter

Publication date 7 May 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098003085

zbMATH Keywords

Floquet theoryBoussinesq equationsadvectiontime-periodic solutionsbaroclinic vorticity productionnonlinear pendulum equationtime-periodic vortical flowstransient large-amplitude non-normal regimeuniform shear flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50)

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