Optimal perturbation growth on a breaking internal gravity wave

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.603zbMATH Open1473.76026OpenAlexW3194319728MaRDI QIDQ5152467FDOQ5152467

Christopher J. Howland, C. P. Caulfield, Jeremy P. Parker, Rich R. Kerswell

Publication date: 24 September 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.603

zbMATH Keywords

convective instabilitystratified flowenergy growthshear-flow instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15)

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Cited In (3)

• Optimal transient growth in thin-interface internal solitary waves
• A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex
• On the role of optimal perturbations in the instability of monochromatic gravity waves

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