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

DOI10.1017/S0022112097006216zbMATH Open0911.76023MaRDI QIDQ4359031FDOQ4359031

Shuzhan Ren, Theodore G. Shepherd

Publication date: 23 April 1999

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

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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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