Lateral boundary contributions to wave-activity invariants and nonlinear stability theorems for balanced dynamics

DOI10.1017/S0022112097006216MaRDI QIDQ4359031zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Shuzhan Ren, Theodore G. Shepherd

Publication date 23 April 1999

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

zbMATH Keywords

slow dynamicsshallow water flowSalmon's modelsemi-geostrophic flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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