Nonlinear Stability of Baroclinic Fronts in a Channel with Variable Topography

DOI10.1002/SAPM1996962183zbMath0855.76026OpenAlexW2229333114MaRDI QIDQ4890199

Gordon E. Swaters, Richard H. Karsten

Publication date: 16 February 1997

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/sapm1996962183

zbMATH Keywords

stability conditionsvariational principlenoncanonical Hamiltonian systemconstrained energy functionalinfinitesimal amplitude limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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