Sub-inertial dynamics of density-driven flows in a continuously stratified fluid on a sloping bottom. I. Model derivation and stability characteristics

DOI10.1098/rspa.1999.0404zbMath0943.76017MaRDI QIDQ4262193

Gordon E. Swaters, Francis J. Poulin

Publication date: 5 September 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1999.0404

zbMATH Keywords

variational principle; fronts; linear stability problem; shallow-water theory; sub-inertial baroclinic dynamics; topographic vorticity gradient; variable bottom topography; parallel shear flow; physical oceanography; \(f\)-plane; continuously stratified fluid; non-canonical Hamiltonian formulation; semicircle theorem; topographic Rossby waves; bottom-intensified density-driven flows; Boussinesq adiabatic equations; normal-mode instability problem; vortex-tube stretching/compression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

76B70: Stratification effects in inviscid fluids

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